[LINK] faux-privacy ? (was: It's Queensland - (sorry to Qlders))

Jan Whitaker jwhit at melbpc.org.au
Fri May 20 14:39:37 AEST 2011


At 02:20 PM 20/05/2011, eric scheid you wrote:
>Another tangential thought ... if someone were to _systematically_ search
>through the nooks and crannies of public space for private objects, thus
>defeating security by obscurity ... could they then be at risk of being
>charged with the crime of _stalking_? (but certainly not _trespassing_ or
>_theft_)

It's sort of like when you hit a web directory that doesn't have a 
proper page for redirect or denial of access so that you see the file 
structure. I'm nearly always tempted to start clicking around. Is 
that illegal now?

Jan



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