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Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

My understanding is that the laws about getting in trouble for accessing something on a computer are basically "if they didn't intend for your to access it and you access it then that's all that is needed for you to get in trouble."

It's basically right up to the line of making a hyperlink that says "oops this was a mistake to hyperlink this, please don't click on this link we did not intend for this to be linked" and if you click that link then you are illegally hacking.

People in Florida got in trouble for accessing COVID data that was just "hidden" in the non-displayed html of some government webpage. The way they "hacked" the data was by pressing Ctrl+U to view the source of the public page.