Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; can now watch new owner

Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca... by barrkel on Sunday June 19, 2016 @06:06PM (#11934932)

If I, as owner of house number 7 on Honest Drive, give you permission to pop in and take a copy of the leaflet I wanted to give you, you don't automatically get a right to wander into houses 1-6 and 8 on the same road. If the doors to those houses aren't locked, it doesn't mean you have permission to enter. There's no requirement for technical barriers on your wandering around, particularly when I give you specific instructions on where to go and get what I have given you permission to get, in order to make explicit your lack of permission to go elsewhere.

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Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca... by fphhotchips on Sunday June 19, 2016 @08:03PM (#11935380)

Right. But, if I knock on the door of houses 1-6 and 8, and they let me in (or hand me a letter through the post slot), I have permission to enter (or take the information on that letter).

A request to a URL is just that - a request. What level of access a request grants should be the responsibility of the grantor.

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Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca... by jessaustin on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:02PM (#11935151)

Please don't invoke the tired and ridiculous "URL:physical address" metaphor. A moment's thought is all that's required to see how dumb it is, every single time it comes up. In real life, one host sending another host a packet is nothing like physically breaking into a house. Houses have many purposes other than the distribution of leaflets. In fact, those physical entities actually designed to distribute leaflets are much more like internet hosts than houses are. No one ever got thrown in FPMITAP for taking one of each of the hundreds of different tourist brochures at a highway rest stop.

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