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by dublinben 3999 days ago
>experiment with it

Be careful with simple "experimentation" like this. You can fall afoul of the CFAA for exactly this.

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Explain?
This is very similar to what Weev was indicted and convicted for.[0] Simply passing valid requests to a system can by construed as "unauthorized" if it is unexpected by the operator of that system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security