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by inkeddeveloper 1990 days ago
if you're accessing a public api, you're not a hacker.
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A lot of web-infrastructure is public API these days. If someone misconfigures their S3 instances and allows the public to access it... accessing internal S3 data (despite being from a public API) is considered hacking IIRC.

The law doesn't care about how easy or hard it is to perform the hack. All it cares is about intent.