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dublinben on July 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The easiest bug bounties I have won

>experiment with it

Be careful with simple "experimentation" like this. You can fall afoul of the CFAA for exactly this.

danieljchen on July 13, 2015 [–]

Explain?

dublinben on July 13, 2015 | [–]

This is very similar to what Weev was indicted and convicted for.[0] Simply passing valid requests to a system can by construed as "unauthorized" if it is unexpected by the operator of that system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security

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