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 -
Replying to @DanielleFong
I understand fully how this works. I am a software developer and own a tech company. There's a difference between stumbling on data and using data. I would not work with someone who does not understand this distinction.
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then i guess I just don’t understand the part, where, apparently, you become infuriated. i mean where’s the time where instead of going “oh my bad”, you’re like “oh I want to put this person on a stick”
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i’m mean sorry to exaggerate, but where does this even become adversarial? i mean did the journalist threaten to publish this “or else” or what?
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