Comment on Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of AirbnbparentComments−thrownblown2yIncrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time.https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/−WendyTheWillow2yThe incrementing itself wasn't the issue! It's all the other stuff around their scraping and apparently their provable desire to harm AT&T that got them convicted.−thrownblown2yDefinitely not going to argue with you on that. But it did all start with the simple addition to the URL.−pests2yOdd they didn't use his handle. I figured it was weev but never knew his real name.−ric2b2yIn the same way that squeezing on a hunk of metal that some may call a "trigger" can get you convicted for murder.
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Incrementing a URL can (and has) get you prison time.
https://www.wired.com/2012/11/att-hacker-found-guilty/
The incrementing itself wasn't the issue! It's all the other stuff around their scraping and apparently their provable desire to harm AT&T that got them convicted.
Definitely not going to argue with you on that. But it did all start with the simple addition to the URL.
Odd they didn't use his handle. I figured it was weev but never knew his real name.
In the same way that squeezing on a hunk of metal that some may call a "trigger" can get you convicted for murder.