full-disclosure - Re: Full-Disclosure Digest, Vol 83, Issue 21

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Message-ID: <14645.1326828225@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:23:45 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Benjamin Kreuter <ben.kreuter@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Full-Disclosure Digest, Vol 83, Issue 21

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:13:00 EST, Benjamin Kreuter said:

> Looking at that law, I am not even sure that you need to use a flaw to
> extract secret info.  It looks like something as simple as transmitting
> a message to each user that dictates what they are authorized to do is
> enough to trigger the law.  If I tell you that you are only allowed to
> access pages on my site by clicking on links from the index.html page,
> and you try entering some other URL, it looks like that would be a
> felony -- IANAL though, so perhaps a lawyer can weigh in on this?

Yes, people *have* been prosecuted for playing "twiddle the URL" games
before.  I'd have to go dig up a cite, but it's happened (hacker was basically
abusing a site's predictable URL scheme).

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