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> you have more plausible deniability sending API requests than you do making a direct connection to a database. A direct connection to a database is an API, t
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> you have more plausible deniability sending API requests than you do making a direct connection to a database.
A direct connection to a database is an API, too. :-)
- tptacek 3y agoNot normally. Which matters here.
- aleph_minus_one 3y agoBut in this case, it is, since this is the way the client connects to the (database) server here.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago$15 what there is no law about illegally accesing information systems which even define API anywhere in the world.
- tptacek 3y agoWhat's your point? People have been convicted for doing things with actual APIs when prosecutors were able to demonstrate that a reasonable person would have assumed they shouldn't have done those things.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoAPI or not API is a technicality which bothers only tech nerds. The law would bother with such nuances.