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Talking at cross-purposes?

No, people being polite and avoiding the more direct answer that'd make people feel bad.

The rest of us understand that intuitively, and that it is already the case, so pretending there was some need to work through it, at best, validates a misconception for one individual.

Less important, as it's mere annoyance rather than infohazard: it's wildly off-topic. Legal hypotheticals where a security researcher released "rm -rf *" on GitHub and ended up in legal trouble is 5 steps downfield even in this situation, and it is a completely different situation. Doubly so when everyone has to "IANAL" through the hypotheticals.




I'm not looking for a loophole or a legal hypothetical, I'm wondering if our laws are keeping up, which they very often do not with tech.

This is not unauthorized access, but is also clearly wrong. I'm wondering if its illegal, or if its unauthorized access . . .




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