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I wonder if paywall bypass tools will one day be treated as burglary tools.

• CriticalCathed 7y ago
  Probably no different than a crack.
• akersten 7y ago
  Why? The webserver chose to provide the browser with content. If they're comfortable serving the article to any browser that whispers the secret passphrase "I'm visiting you from Google.com" - well, that's their prerogative.
  • sincerely 7y ago
    https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
  • a3n 7y ago
    If a guy can be convicted for traversing a URL ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev ... then just about anything can be prosecuted if the "victim" and prosecutor are determined enough and the perpetrator is unlikable enough. His conviction was overturned on incorrect venue, not because of a problem with the charge.
    • akersten 7y ago
      Yep, I know of Weev's case and think it was a heinous miscarriage of justice. Companies outsourcing the consequences of their misconfigured servers as externalities to the legal system is how we wind up with massive data breaches that firms simply brush off and consider business as usual. But that's a whole 'nother soapbox.