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by thrownblown 946 days ago
Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time.

https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/
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WendyTheWillow 946 days ago
The 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.
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thrownblown 946 days ago
Definitely not going to argue with you on that. But it did all start with the simple addition to the URL.
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pests 946 days ago
Odd they didn't use his handle. I figured it was weev but never knew his real name.
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ric2b 946 days ago
In the same way that squeezing on a hunk of metal that some may call a "trigger" can get you convicted for murder.
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