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by brianpgordon 4478 days ago
I'm certain that publishing this is a bad idea, particularly since he admitted to logging in as a random user. Again and again we've seen that performing trivial actions is treated by the courts as "unauthorized access."

Weev was convicted to 3.5 years in prison for calling a public API with lots of different keys:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/auernheimer-aka-w...

In the UK, Daniel Cuthbert was convicted for typing "../../../" in his address bar:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11341