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- apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
Depending on the exact level of stupidity clinging to the judge on that day, some jurisdictions might consider this “hacking.”
One case from the states that was luckily dismissed: https://uk.pcmag.com/security/136282/missouri-gov-goes-after-reporter-who-found-shockingly-bad-flaw-in-state-website https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-the-hacking-investigation-into-journalist-who-clicked-view-source-on-government-website/
Germany for example. There was just the Modern Solutions case and the ruling was that using a hex editor to get hardcoded MySQL passwords from a binary is considered hacking
// these are unicode characters in four hex…If your dev team needs a comment explaining this I have some serious concerns about their qualifications.
Security through obscurity is not security. I see no reason why source maps should be unavailable.
Because source maps show how shitty your organization’s code and overall engineering practices are.
Ding ding ding
Open source code is usually quite nice and well done because money pressure is way less of an issue and everyone knows people will be looking at your code



