Poor analogy. What he was doing (incrementing an ID to access a series of files) is more like leafing his way through a filing cabinet. A filing cabinet that was ostensibly filled with public-access files, and he was told he was allowed to be in the filing cabinet.
So while going to the filing cabinet to get the file he'd been directed to, he leafed through other files too. Why not? They're all public information, since they're sitting here in the unlocked filing cabinet with all of the other public information files.
Turns out some of them were mislabeled, and were private information in the public information filing cabinet.
Not so weird, not so antisocial, not his fault, shouldn't be his problem.
So while going to the filing cabinet to get the file he'd been directed to, he leafed through other files too. Why not? They're all public information, since they're sitting here in the unlocked filing cabinet with all of the other public information files.
Turns out some of them were mislabeled, and were private information in the public information filing cabinet.
Not so weird, not so antisocial, not his fault, shouldn't be his problem.