Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by quickthrower2 on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:40PM (#16854016)

Security is multi layered.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by scrumption on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:19PM (#16854268)

Obscurity is not a security layer.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by rurounijones on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:58PM (#16854786)

Obscurity is a perfectly fine security layer as you said yourself (i.e. it is one of many layers).

Relying ONLY on obscurity is a failure.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by Someone1234 on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:50PM (#16854435)

So a password or private encryption key isn't security?

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by pluma on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:13AM (#16856453)

What is a UUID if not a fairly predictable object-based shared authorization token?

EDIT: I'm mostly kidding.

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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by quickthrower2 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @05:17AM (#16856702)

Just call it an object-specific API key, that forms part of the URI instead of being a header value. Since we are using https it's all good.

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