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A hacker built a tool to track police officers. Then he tried to warn them (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] 46 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I learned a while ago that clicking around on a web site and accidentally wandering into an area that is supposed to be secure but isn't is hacking as well

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    That literally is hacking, though. Poking around until you find a vulnerability.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I don’t think any jury in the world would call clicking on links literally hacking. When I read poking around, that is what I think of. And their point is that if you click on a link that takes you to a secure area because of bad security, it is defined as hacking by the law in some jurisdictions. This is because those laws don't describe the action, they simply say "accessing" certain data. Which is lame.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Here in Germany clicking links is not hacking. Website owner is responsible for where the link goes to. Remember the link disclaimer on websites?

    But typing pageId=2 instead of pageId=1 opened via link is hacking.

    Clicking show page source and seeing cleartext passwords left in there is hacking.

    On login forgetting to type your password and entering with an empty password is hacking.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    @streetcoder @Modern_medicine_isnt thats funny, I never dig the defenition of hacking here, but everytime I see someone hacking on news they are with a sweatshirt wirh the cmd open making ping to google, i think it must be something like that

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    So a chess player that exploits an opponent’s weakness is hacking?
    A snake that finds an entrance to a gopher burrow is hacking?

    “Finding vulnerabilities” is the kind of dangerously overbroad generalization that gave us the DMCA.

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