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by d64f396930663ee 4479 days ago
It's a felony in the US to do what the author did here, right? Not that there's any indication where they're from, I'm just curious.
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I'm going to say FU to the industry and buy a horse ranch if it is! These were all public documented endpoints and 'worked as intended'. criticker is next-level incompetence, that's pretty much the point.
Well saddle-up, my friend ;-)

In seriousness, recall the weev/AT&T case[1]. As I understand it, the attack was roughly of the sophistication of making a totally unauthenticated request to:

get_user_email_address.php?id=N

(where N was from a series of sequential integers)... and apparently the feds had a colorable argument that N constituted an "access control system", and therefore the act of iterating the entire series of possible N values (and downloading the resulting data) constituted "unauthorized access to a protected system".

Not quite in the same realm as coughing up plain-text passwords, I'll admit. But clearly some relevant authorities would set the bar for "access control system" fairly low. And apparently rank incompetence on the part of the site developer/owner appears not to come into things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808676

Really wish there were better defense attorneys onboard in these cases because at their core these instances boggle the logical mind.
Felony for what?
Assuming the user "Injustice" isn't the blog post author's account, yeah they shouldn't be logging into it, even just to prove the legitimacy of an exploit.