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It's not a good analogy because your browser is your house. The "open front door" analogy works in some instances of "hacking," like enumerating an ID field in
by TechBro8615 5y ago
It's not a good analogy because your browser is your house.
The "open front door" analogy works in some instances of "hacking," like enumerating an ID field in a URL. But in those cases you are making an active request to "enter the door" for each ID. That's not the case here – you downloaded a page you have access to, and the server included more data in the page than it should have, without you asking for it.
It's like somebody tossed a phone book into your open door, and then prosecuted you for reading it.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoDoes it really matter whether you're in your own house or standing on the public street? The good Samaritan in the analogy didn't go through the open door. They just phoned their neighbor to warn them: "Hey, your door is open, leaving your purse in plain view. You should probably fix that!" A bad actor would have actually stolen the purse. Just like a bad actor would have used the social security numbers to commit identify fraud. Since neither of those things happened, prosecuting anyone is ridiculous, in both the analogy and real life.