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by FeepingCreature 784 days ago
There are people who see a system and wonder how it can be broken or misused, or whether there's corner cases where the guarantees the system offers don't hold up. These people sometimes take actions that inconvenience or harm others, but we value them nonetheless because we acknowledge that these systems must be fixed, and this cannot happen if nobody draws attention to it.

If some hacker notices that a website has sequential id's and no session cookies and you can use this to dump their entire database, you think this doesn't cause any stress for the employees?

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You think his dad really did it to draw attention to the plight of delivery workers, and not out of desire to be clever, "beat the system" and get a free pizza?