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in what world is a public profile search by name called "hacking"?

• georgemcbay 13y ago
  The same one where Andrew "weev" Auernheimer is in jail for three and a half years for doing essentially the same thing?
  • 21echoes 13y ago
    so i'm about to go to jail for using the facebook search bar? and weev actually had to do work to break the AT&T service... this looks like he just searched for users.
    • georgemcbay 13y ago
      For using a website's search bar, no, but for using "hacker tools" like Chrome Developer Tools' Network tab, seeing the resulting http data and then rewriting it with a trivial value change and rePOSTing that to the server -- very possibly, if you happen to stumble upon a security issue that gives you data beyond what the company initially expected you to get. My point isn't to vilify the unknown "hacker" here but rather to suggest that what is or isn't hacking varies greatly upon whose point of view you're looking at things from, and how badly they'd like to shift the blame for their errors to someone else, and how willing they are to go after you with the full force of a federal prosecutor all too willing to jump on a trending gravy-train. We've set some very dangerous recent precedents where trivial "hacks" have resulted in very serious punishments.