This reads like the beginning of The Hacker Crackdown..
As a Canadian, reading this article made me angry. If the information is not supposed to be public, it should not be reachable without authorization or authentication.
Never mind a curious 19-year-old, there are tons of crawlers and indexers out there that attempt to enumerate URLs where they think there might be other content.
Shame on them for building a poorly secured site, but even more for trying to railroad a curious kid who made them look stupid.
As a Canadian, reading this article made me angry. If the information is not supposed to be public, it should not be reachable without authorization or authentication.
Never mind a curious 19-year-old, there are tons of crawlers and indexers out there that attempt to enumerate URLs where they think there might be other content.
Shame on them for building a poorly secured site, but even more for trying to railroad a curious kid who made them look stupid.