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> Am I allowed to go to businesses and try to pick the locks, look inside, and then report to the business owner that their lock was pickable? Well... yes, but
by seabee 13y ago
> Am I allowed to go to businesses and try to pick the locks, look inside, and then report to the business owner that their lock was pickable? Well... yes, but I'd probably be reported to police.
Sometimes these discoveries aren't intentional. Let's say I lean against a door and it's not locked. Well, I never meant to open it up, but since I can't prove I didn't intend to, and since the business can't distinguish people with honorable intentions vs. those without, why risk telling them?
If you tar the helpful with the same brush as the crooks then you shall always learn the hard way from your mistakes.
- nhangen 13y agoThe articled states that the kid used SQL injection techniques to access the site and gauge the vulnerability.
- stcredzero 13y agoDid he do anything that wasn't simply a GET/POST/PUT?
- scarmig 13y agoIt's perfectly possible to accidentally stumble across SQL injection. E.g. my street address growing up was 1901 Mayor's Road.
- politician 13y agoYeah, I had a hard time with my street address: 5987 O'Drop Table users; Go
- evacuationdrill 13y agoThe article supposed that's what he did, and it probably is.