I actually think it's the perfect analogy. It's a robot that does exactly what you tell it to do. If you apply power it'll open for ANYONE and if you don't ap

I actually think it's the perfect analogy. It's a robot that does exactly what you tell it to do. If you apply power it'll open for ANYONE and if you don't apply power, it doesn't. I can't see a better analogy for the webserver that revealed confidential information as someone who accidentally left the automatic door on. It opened when the owner didn't want it to, but you can't blame the user of an automatic door for taking its working as some kind of implied permission. If the owner of said automatic door didn't want it to open he or she had only to switch the door off to make their desires translate 100% into real action. Where things get dicey is that there are certain customs and tradition and clues regarding whether a store is open or not. If the lights are off and it's the middle of the night and there are no cars in the parking lot and etc, it's probably not open and the door opening is probably a mistake, not on purpose. The internet does not provide any kind of context clues like this, except perhaps for robots.txt and that doesn't apply to humans!