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I wonder if this was made by AI or a shit programmer (gregtech.eu)

submitted 1 week ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hack has at least two definitions in a computing context.

A nifty trick or shortcut that is useful. "Check out this hack to increase your productivity."
Accessing something you shouldn't. "They hacked into the database."

A lot of times they sort of get used in conjunction to describe interesting ways to gain access to secure systems, but using it to describe accessing insecure things you shouldn't is still a valid usage of the phrase.

That said I definitely wanna see the company face charges for this, this is insane.

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

No, this was a data leak. The word "hack" has legal implications and shifts the blame away from the company and onto the individual who discovered the leak.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

It can be both. The company can be at fault for not keeping something secure while the people who steal the data are at fault for stealing data. Data leaks and hacks are not mutually exclusive.

[-] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

I don't disagree with your main point, but I'm not sure it's really even "stealing", as that means to take without permission. In this case, the storage permissions were configured so that the files were publicly available to everyone, so everyone had permission to access them.

Semantics though. It's still unethical to access that data, even if it's not technically stealing.