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Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000
From: Alan J. Wylie <shyyqvfpybfher () wylie me uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:51:28 +0000
"Nick FitzGerald" <nick () virus-l demon co uk> writes:
According to at least one legal ruling in Germany, it is "hacking" (as in the negative, illegal kind) to deliberately try to access upper- level directories of _published_ URLs _if_ the specific URLs to those resources have not also been made publicly available, _despite_ that they are necessarily discernible from the published URL.
In the case of the Disasters Emergency Committee "hacker", he was found guilty of "put[ting] ../../../ into the address line" "He was fined £400 for the offence and must pay a further £600 in costs", and "is considering a career outside the IT industry". http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/05/dec_case/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/06/tsunami_hacker_convicted/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/11/tsunami_hacker_followup/ -- Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Peter Dawson (Jan 24)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Stefan Weimar (Jan 24)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Jeffrey Walton (Jan 24)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Stefan Weimar (Jan 24)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Daniel Richards (Jan 22)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Ferenc Kovacs (Jan 24)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Jeffrey Walton (Jan 21)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Nick FitzGerald (Jan 21)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 Alan J . Wylie (Jan 22)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data Julius Kivimäki (Jan 22)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data Jeffrey Walton (Jan 21)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data jason (Jan 22)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data Christian Sciberras (Jan 22)
- Re: Student expelled from Montreal college after finding vulnerability that compromised security of 250, 000 students personal data Bzzz (Jan 22)