full-disclosure - Re: Congratulations Andrew

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Message-ID: <4C193149.5030907@csuohio.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:17:13 -0400
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu>
To: T Biehn <tbiehn@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	"Thor \(Hammer of God\)" <Thor@...merofgod.com>
Subject: Re: Congratulations Andrew

> So what grants you legal access to aol.com (HTTP port 80 get / )?
> I'm confused? Does search engine indexing grant legal access to online
> resources?
>
>   

The activity in question (sequentially guessing serial numbers and
submitting them to a form) is more like SSH brute-force than it is to
stumble upon a random HTTP site with no authentication.

Having a bunch of drugs laying about when $agency comes to ask about it
.. also a bad idea.

My $0.02, IANAL, etc.

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University

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