MSI warranty claim database was publicly accessible via Google

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• blackwateropeth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gobbless Gamers Nexus salutes the GN flag

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• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do not forget that accessing stuff on Google can probably get you to prison.

  When you see something illegal on Google that should have never been published publicly you need to immediately avert your eyes and plug your ears. 🙉

  Don’t be the next Aaron Swartz…

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  • infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aaron Schwartz story is a bit different, because he actually paid for those documents via taxpayer money.

    But other parts of your comment is true. A good analogy: if someone leaves their house open, and you walk in, that is still burglary.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you mean it’s still trespassing, burglary requires intent to commit a crime while entering a building illegally.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In your analogy that isn’t trespassing. You’d have to knowingly violate a no trespassing sign or a persons command to leave.

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    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bad analogy imho. That would be like going in a mall, entering a store, and being told that it’s actually a house and you’re trespassing

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t believe that, it’s not classified information… Maybe if you then distributed the personal information, but they redacted whatever is shown. If it was classified information, then it’d be illegal.

    That’s like saying if you read a piece of paper you found outside and it’s got personal information, you just broke the law. I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think clicking a link from Google and reading unclassified documents is illegal in any way.

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    • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or if the government sends you the social security numbers of every teacher in the state. Then you’re a hacker for responsibly disclosing the issue:
      Missouri gov. calls journalist who found security flaw a “hacker,” threatens to sue

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Et tu, MSI?

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• iconic_admin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jokes on them, I never register products with the manufacturer.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just make everything public and transparent because nobody seems to know how to actually protect data.

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• Timely_Jellyfish_2077@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First zotac and then MSI.

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• autonomoususer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t want us to claim our warrenty, so direct message legal first instead.

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• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Somehow that’s not surprising, but it’s still a yikes.

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