It is the use of something that is not yours. They did not post their social security numbers on a blog. They trusted them to a third party who did not anticipate their property being used this way.
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Replying to @seatripper1 @DanielleFong
And that is not an unreasonable claim. If an employee of mine did this, I would fire them immediately. I would not even spend 30 seconds thinking about it. And a lawyer would 100% back me up on that.
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Replying to @seatripper1
really?? i’m sorry. i’m commenting without knowing the specifics of the situation. but what exactly would you find the firable offense? it can’t be view sourcing something — it’s going to the public? did they try to report it through proper channels at all?
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Replying to @DanielleFong
As I understand it, the local newspaper wanted to make the vulnerability a story in itself. Which is another way of saying they intended to profit off of publishing it.
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Replying to @seatripper1 @DanielleFong
That's a whole other world than saying, I innocently stumbled on this, get a new IT guy maybe.
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Replying to @seatripper1
yeah, I agree this could cross into “that’s bullshit” territory. i really hope collaterally they don’t criminalize “view source”, and that a good judge will instead rule on some other factor
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Well, unfortunately, telling other people they are stupid is not much of a legal defense. You possess agency as an individual, and that comes with responsibilities and expectations for your own behavior.
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Replying to @DanielleFong
Goes back to the car analogy. Just because it is there does not mean you are entitled to exploit it under the law. The car is there, but the decision to take it is yours alone.
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🤷🏻♀️ Retweeted Damien P. Williams, MA, MSc, ABD, Patternist
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Damien P. Williams, MA, MSc, ABD, Patternist @WolvenReplying to @GovParsonMOStep 1: Open page. Step 2: Right-Click Mouse/Trackpad Step 3: Try to click "take screenshot" Step 4: Accidentally click "View Page Source," instead Step 5: Go "Oh holy crap was someone absolutely HORRIFYINGLY incompetent enough to have pasted SSN's as plaintext in their HTML?!"…2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
i’m not saying this is generally correct, but is it closer that your car analogy? i think it might be!
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