Re:Pwning eBay – How I Dumped eBay Japan's Website Source Code
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:50AM
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These analogies never work (and I just used one elsewhere on this story too) - one could equally equate it to arriving at a business, opening the door without seeing the "closed" sign, going in and taking a photo, realising no-one is there, and leaving. Then you call the owner and say "I noticed you have a security problem". The problem is their employee forgot to lock the door, they'd indicated you shouldn't go in (posted the closed sign) and so strictly speaking you were trespassing [unlawfully entering, whatever].
Punishing the person for telling you you have a problem seems a bit silly, even if the photo they took included copyrighted material (maybe an architecture model on the counter).
Punishing the person for telling you you have a problem seems a bit silly, even if the photo they took included copyrighted material (maybe an architecture model on the counter).