Re:Ask HN: Found a major vuln in competitor's software. What...
by jgrahamc on Sunday May 26, 2013 @03:11PM
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Tell them; be a mensch; life is long.
Many years ago when the web was young I worked for a company that had accidentally left its intranet open to the web. We didn't know. It was hard to find, but if you knew the URL you could access it (on some weird port).
But on the intranet was a link to a competitor. The competitor found the intranet because it appeared in their referrer logs. One of our employees had clicked through to the competitor and left a trail.
The CEO wrote to us and told us. Looking at our intranet logs we knew that they only looked at that one page.
The CEO of that company became a fairly well known VC. All of us had a great deal of respect for his actions. They could have accessed details of our product plans, revenue and employees.
Ultimately, his company was more successful than we were.
Many years ago when the web was young I worked for a company that had accidentally left its intranet open to the web. We didn't know. It was hard to find, but if you knew the URL you could access it (on some weird port).
But on the intranet was a link to a competitor. The competitor found the intranet because it appeared in their referrer logs. One of our employees had clicked through to the competitor and left a trail.
The CEO wrote to us and told us. Looking at our intranet logs we knew that they only looked at that one page.
The CEO of that company became a fairly well known VC. All of us had a great deal of respect for his actions. They could have accessed details of our product plans, revenue and employees.
Ultimately, his company was more successful than we were.