Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr...
by EamonnMR on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:40PM
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How is someone supposed to determine that one unauthorized thing is hidden among many authorized, similarly named things?
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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr...
by hunter2_ on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @02:10AM
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I guess because the unauthorized thing isn't linked. Giving you the link is like giving you a password... They're both just strings although one is considered to be more secret than the other. Guessing at links is like guessing at passwords: it's overcoming the fact that you weren't provided with the string that gets the server to respond with the stuff.
I don't like this but I think it's how it legally could play out.