full-disclosure - Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000

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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:51:28 +0000
From: Alan J. Wylie <shyyqvfpybfher@...ie.me.uk>
To: Full-Disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after
	finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000

"Nick FitzGerald" <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk> writes:

> According to at least one legal ruling in Germany, it is "hacking" (as 
> in the negative, illegal kind) to deliberately try to access upper-
> level directories of _published_ URLs _if_ the specific URLs to those 
> resources have not also been made publicly available, _despite_ that 
> they are necessarily discernible from the published URL.

In the case of the Disasters Emergency Committee "hacker", he was found
guilty of "put[ting] ../../../ into the address line"

"He was fined £400 for the offence and must pay a further £600 in
costs", and "is considering a career outside the IT industry".

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/05/dec_case/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/tsunami_hacker_convicted/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/

-- 
Alan J. Wylie                                          http://www.wylie.me.uk/

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