[a_soncodi]

I recall a past comment on HN claiming that altering URLs to discover content may constitute hacking. For example,

  http://site.com/posts/img.jpg
  http://site.com/posts/img_t.jpg

In the first paragraph of the article:

> The proposed definition … is to obtain information … by knowingly circumventing technological or physical measures designed to prevent unauthorized individuals from obtaining that information.

suggests that, in that context, the debate would be whether a certain URL structure implies a legitimate attempt at securing content, rather than just being a side-effect of website structure/design.

Would it be unreasonable to argue that blatant disregard for security due-dilligence or just 'bad' security is not an honest attempt at the same, and thus equivalent to no security at all?