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Careful. You don't want to go to jail for telling people about open, public information on the Internet that you accessed just by going to a URL.


Though overly snarky, you have a great point. Wasn't Weev just sent to jail for exactly this? Doing http gets against "guessed" URLs without authorization?


No, he went to jail because after that, he wrote a script, scraped through all the URLs and collected private information, then bragged in IRC about stuff he could do with it.


Yes.




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