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Yeah, and there is a guy currently fighting in court because he changed some numbers in a URL and was able to get information on other customers from AT&T ... C
by X-Istence 14y ago
Yeah, and there is a guy currently fighting in court because he changed some numbers in a URL and was able to get information on other customers from AT&T ... CFAA.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoBut we didn't change anything here; is just a website that says: "Select the file you want to print" and that's it.
- 0x0 14y agoAnd you think the owners of the printers really enjoy others using them like that? That all those IPs are set up like this on purpose?
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoIs there a fact we can examine to answer that/those questions?
- 0x0 14y agoIf you have to ask the question, I think you already know the answer.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoThe enjoyment or lack of it by the printer owners is probably not a valid legal argument.
- 0x0 14y ago[Citation needed] (also, how very considerate of you)
- pbhjpbhj 14y agoThis is different in essential details. Google are indexing these pages. That means the pages are advertised as part of the public internet. Now not every layman knows how to properly hook things up to the internet, but there is a definite implied consent in doing so. If the pages were restricted by password and we were bypassing it, or they were locked to an IP and we could spoof it, then there wouldn't be an implied consent to access the service being provided; but that's not the case here. If you want to look at intent then it's notable that many listed are University addresses - people setting up those printers absolutely know what they're doing. If you purposefully used excessive paper/ink or you kill the hardware with a broken firmware update then those things are definitely not authorised by the implied consent and would constitute vandalism.