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evikstoday at 4:18 AM1 replyview on HN

Also had this first thought, but then a hack could just be a way around a limit/lack of authorization, doesn't have to be unknown/sophisticated, so copy of black boxes fits


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fc417fc802today at 4:52 AM

> limit/lack of authorization

By serving up the PDF file I am being authorized to receive, view, process, etc etc the entire contents. Not just some limited subset. If I wasn't authorized to receive some portion of the file then that needed to be withheld to begin with.

That's entirely different from gaining unauthorized entry to a system and copying out files that were never publicly available to begin with.

To put it simply, I am not responsible for the other party's incompetence.

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