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I see your point, but I think maybe I didn't make my point very well. To follow your fence analogy, they've ruled that any fence is important, but ignored bric
by danpalmer 3y ago
I see your point, but I think maybe I didn't make my point very well.
To follow your fence analogy, they've ruled that any fence is important, but ignored brick walls and rope tied between posts – i.e. they've picked something overly specific, but poorly fit to the behaviour they are actually trying to classify.
While I'm sure that ruling against fences doesn't rule out a future ruling against walls or ropes, it probably complicates getting those rulings in the future, as one could use a defence of "if they wanted to protect it they should have built a fence" to imply security.
- radu_floricica 3y agoAn edge case would be a hidden URL. Publicly accessible, but not publicly available. That's more or less the same as a rope tied between posts, with the posts maybe felled by the wind. It's a good argument that it's a misunderstanding whether it's private property or not. A password is not that. (and to be frank, to anybody in the know even a passwordless phpmyadmin is clearly private)
- TheNewsIsHere 3y agoI assume that this situation is why government systems will often have a notice that says something like “absence of access controls is not authorization for access.”