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Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ... by MangezBien on Thursday October 14, 2021 @04:31PM (#28869646)
The only person to be upset at is the one who didn't put access control on the site. That was a publically available endpoint. The better analogy is putting something private on a public bulletin board and being mad if someone read something you didn't want them to.
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Re:Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found ... by ModernMech on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:21PM (#28870973)
A billboard is a broadcast message though, whereas an HTTP request is more like a back and forth exchange between two participants. So I think the original knock->response->enter is a better metaphor.
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