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Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time. https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/ https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-gui
by thrownblown 3y ago
Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time.
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/ https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoThe incrementing itself wasn't the issue! It's all the other stuff around their scraping and apparently their provable desire to harm AT&T that got them convicted.
- thrownblown 3y agoDefinitely not going to argue with you on that. But it did all start with the simple addition to the URL.
- pests 3y agoOdd they didn't use his handle. I figured it was weev but never knew his real name.
- ric2b 3y agoIn the same way that squeezing on a hunk of metal that some may call a "trigger" can get you convicted for murder.