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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 06:38 AM EDT |
There's the issue of expectation here. If you come across a door which has a
lock, you know that lockpicking it is wrong, even if there's no notice on the
door saying you aren't meant to pick the lock.
Same here. That string is meant to be a lock, and it is not (as far as I know)
published. Sure, it's accessible to the public, but in the same way as the door
to a private building is.
If the lockpicking argument seems too removed from this, consider a building
with a door with a keypad to enter some code to unlock a door, without a sign
saying "guessing the code is forbidden". Should I say I did not commit
a crime if I trespass by guessing the code ? I say it depends on the
particulars. If the code is secret but easy to find, it should not mean the
building owner is deemed to have waived right of no trespass.
Now, I don't know the laws about having to have signs saying "no
entry". Maybe you're supposed to have signs at all doors saying "no
entry", but I doubt it. And you really should not be deemed to waive your
right to disallow strangers who guess the code on the basis that there's another
door to another part of the building which is public (eg, a shop's front door
and its back door for truck loading, for instance).
So while I see the point that is being made, I can't agree that it is that
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| Authored by: PJ on Saturday, May 04 2013 @ 09:51 AM EDT |
The author chose pw to try to make them equivalent,
but in real life nobody puts a password into a
url. And if you did, the url doesn't morph into
a password. It's now a name of a page, not
code trying to block entrance, and even if you
called it "password" it doesn't make it one,
since the page sits on the web, accessible to
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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 01:56 AM EDT |
There are millions of doors. They all look pretty much the same. Most of
them, you push on the handle and they open. Some do not. As a visitor,
you neither know nor care what specific mechanism is activated within
the door to open it; if you push on the handle and it opens, there is a
presumption that you are welcome to enter.
These wankers are trying to claim that some of their doors, which look
and behave just like all the others, are not to be used, and that you are
committing a crime if you open them.
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Don't open that!! It's the original can of worms![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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