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What makes a page public? Opening it up so that anyone who visits a link sees it? Or actually giving the link to someone to post in public. If the latter, I
by Lawtonfogle 11y ago
What makes a page public?
Opening it up so that anyone who visits a link sees it?
Or actually giving the link to someone to post in public.
If the latter, I have a website that one could visit but which I have never given the link out for. It seems absurd that it would be considered hacking to just visit the front page of my website whose link I have never given out but which you can guess. (0 content website of which I never actually finished designing.)
- gph 11y agoI think that's why intent is the important part of the applicable law. If I went to your website without knowing I wasn't meant to access it, then I wouldn't be breaking the law. If however you could prove in court that my intention was to access the website without your permission than I would be breaking the law. Certainly it would be very difficult to prove my intent, and there's probably nothing about your website that would make it clear I wasn't meant to access it. But if you had a bunch of private user pages that I somehow figured out how to get to even though it's apparent that I'm not meant to have access to, then I could be prosecuted for that. I think it's a terrible grey area that this law leaves open, but alas that's how it is for now.