Well UK, have the day you voted for I guess

Thank fuck for VPNs, although it now wants to show me hot milfs in Brussels.

And many republican US states.

Also California

This is more like the door was left open and the lights were on, and you took pictures of the artwork on the entryway walls and then left.

At which step should it turn illegal? You accessing publicly available website? How exactly are you to know if it is supposed to be public or not, if there is not even an attempt at security?

Criminal negligence.

One of the definitions of hacking is illegally gaining access to a computer system. It doesn't need to involve any sort of exploit. Stealing from an unlocked home is still stealing. Gaining access to a system by phishing is still hacking. Leaking data that is technically publicly accessible that isn't meant to be publicly accessible is still hacking.

Not that I suspect anything good from 4chan but the proper thing to do would be to disclose to Tea that their data is public and allow them to fix the problem. The ethics of vulnerability disclosure still apply when the vulnerability is "hey you literally didn't secure this at all."

The term has had so many definitions its not really meaningful.

The storage facility concept is kinda close, if you count it as "a storage facility beside a major intersection in a big facility, with the locker doors left open despite meant the warning at the front desk not to do so"

BUT WE HAVE FREEDUM!!!

I live in the UK and, like nearly everyone else in the UK, have never been required to do this. The only time it's required is when accessing adult-only sites, and there are some obvious workarounds in those cases, yarr.

My only exception to that are uber drivers. But then again we live in an age where somehow better help has become popular, even though they sell your data.

Instead, just prove you have a credit card by submitting the details. Also totally safe. Be sure to include the CVV, please!

The only site I ever felt comfortable scanning shit like that into was a site that sold things only to military/medics/fire fighters so I had to upload my medic license and my FF cert.

Anything beyond that is a no go from me.

Remember when the government published SSNs in HTML? https://www.zdnet.com/article/missouri-will-not-prosecute-hacker-reporter-for-daring-to-view-state-website-html/

Where do you think the AI learned it?

Like, I get that competent coders do it too, but now any skiddie with an idea can cosplay as a developer so this is going to be so much more prevelant

This is something I worry about all the time as well, especially since I've started to learn how to code and experienced how easy it is to mess up and send a list with all registered users to everyone opening a page. (This was in a test environment.)

As a user, there is no proper way I know of to verify an app's security. Most apps are closed source, but even if you could view the code, what would you look for?

Both Apple and Google have a verification process for apps that are published in their app stores, but if these worked, we wouldn't see this happening.

There are academic researchers working on apps and privacy as well, but it's not like you can ask them for a report on an app you're thinking of installing.

I think it basically comes down to trust. Check if a developer has messed up in the past and how they dealt with that, that sort of stuff. And for dating apps there is this interesting article: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/#reducing-the-risks-when-using-dating-apps

It's a long read (haven't fully read it myself yet) and it paints a bleak picture, but that's the world we live in today.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and in strange eons even death may die.

I think?

Oh my god that's... So stupid, i hate this time line.

Dirty water that would behave no different if you sifted out the proteins.

most of the admins were revealed to have .gov emails

I remember reading that this was something someone just made up and was spread a bunch, but wasn't true at all.

If you think that's the same thing, you don't understand at least on of those things, but safe money is both...