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There’s not that much nuance, actually.
It’s equivalent to someone plugging in the default password to luggage locks knowing full well it’s not their luggage.
He wasn’t authorized to access those files, it really doesn’t matter how he came by the credentials.
It also really doesn’t matter that he’s a journalist. Journalists aren’t allowed to break the law, even if he’s going after a scumbag like West.
This differs from the Marion county raid in that they accessed public information (actual public information. That the server interacts with the public doesn’t make it public) and received files from people who were authorized to access it. No crimes were committed by the journalists.
This differs from Assange in that Assange merely received the files and published them. Assange didn’t steal the files himself.
That’s not how the archive works.
When you access an old website, they saved a snapshot of that website on their servers. You are not accessing 3rd party servers.
You understand that all a URL is, is a forwarding address? Do you have no expectation of privacy if you’re in the phone book? What if your front door is unlocked? (If you’re in the US, yes you do. Most the world I imagine.)
When you plug a URL in, your browser goes to a DNS server, looks, for the domain name in question, then tells your. Browser what the current/best IP address is for that.
That’s as far as “public” as it is. When you’re taking about domain names all it means bejng “public” is that you’re registered with a DNS service. Your server is still yours. That is all that’s “public” about it.
The streaming service relies, apparently, on security through obscurity.
That they have shitty security protocols doesn’t change that he wasn’t supposed to get it, and that it wasn’t public.