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Could people who picked up pieces of confetti and stuck them together in order to decipher their contents be charged with a crime, similarly to how people have
by adriand 14y ago
Could people who picked up pieces of confetti and stuck them together in order to decipher their contents be charged with a crime, similarly to how people have been prosecuted for "hacking" by retrieving information through trivial tinkering with public URLs?
- geekam 14y ago>> similarly to how people have been prosecuted for "hacking" by retrieving information through trivial tinkering with public URLs I had no clue that happened. Scary.
- damian2000 14y agoGood example of it here: http://risky.biz/minter http://risky.biz/minter (direct object reference in URL)
- mitchty 14y agoIt goes back to really old case law as to "allowed" access to a computer system. Basically if you see a url with /foo.html?user=1234 and you go, hmm lets switch the number to 1235 and see what happens. Basically that is outside of reasonable expectations to access a system. Or something like that, i'm not a lawyer but that is how I understand the case law works for now.
- jrockway 14y agoIt depends on the well-accepted legal test of whether or not they were wearing Guy Fawkes masks at the time.
- jackowayed 14y agoIf they were to actually exploit their possession of the information (eg. get credit in the person's name by piecing together confetti with name, DOB, and SSN), it would be a crime. The tricky thing is that with hacking, the line between piecing together the vulnerability and exploiting it doesn't involve as much clearcut intent and harm.
- lucisferre 14y agoThe article said things were horizontally shredded so full text was visible in places. IANAL but I don't think you can be charged with seeing something that's as plain as day.