[huffmsa]

People describe their company's entire tech stack, in detail on LinkedIn.

And the little shot of dopamine they get from being LinkedIn popular would probably make them happy to answer any questions you have about things they left out.

[salawat]

There's a difference between knowing all the pieces that go into a working machine, and knowing how, in what order, to what end, and all the little interactions and knock-on effects in the form of of unwritten knowledge that keep a company cranking along.

Go ahead and set yourself up a Tomcat cluster, an internal Tomcat cluster, some Oracle databases, and even go so far as to reverse-engineer a UI and maybe a data model if we're being extra ambitious.

A business, you still will not have.

[huffmsa]

I'm not talking about a business perspective, I mean they're laying out their specific attack surface, zero social engineering required.