Reporter may be prosecuted for using “view source”
We desperately need a law that says (or at least need people in power to understand that) if your server sends it (as an agent working on behalf of your interests), you decided it was ok for me to receive it! For HTTP this understanding is literally conveyed in the status code (200-OK). Once data is sent to the client, you can't say they are breaking the law by looking at it[0]. Anyone with a text-based browser would have seen this data right away without even having to use the Powerful Hacking Tool view source.<p>A law like this would also prevent the grave injustice of being considered a criminal for incrementing a query parameter to iterate through different records (weev/AT&T, I think). That also should never have been considered "hacking". Companies need to fix their damn auth instead of relying on the CFAA being overly generous to financially/politically-endowed interests. That law needs a neuter.<p>[0]: notwithstanding an actually-compromised server, which is no longer an agent working in its owners interest. We'd have to be very careful to word this law, but I believe we can do a lot better than what we've got today.