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by TeMPOraL 3248 days ago
That seems unreasonable.

If I logged in to a service and saw an URL like http://example.com/1234/secret_data, calling them with a report of potential vulnerability would be a waste of their and my time 98% of the time. And there's infinite number of such "potential vulnerabilities" to report, too. Like on HN, I see I can edit my profile description over at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TeMPOraL. I wonder what happens when I change the 'id' param? Better not try out, but call 'dang immediately!

Discovering an actual vulnerability in the first place requires doing something that could be considered hacking.

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You consider it "hacking" to change a url from example.com/1234 to example.com/1235?
Ask Weev, while being a troll... Apparently he gets to go to jail for using numbers at the end of a url... ICC ID... So you try one number than another, then disclose it, and yeah... Go to prison. Welcome to America.