Really cool idea! I agree on the whole most people are incredibly nice and will go out of their way to explain their reasoning. But a small, loud group seems to crop up in political discussions. It's interesting because it's not always they they don't know they're being rude, but rather they know and are proud of it because of their beliefs.

Could you guess at how many chickens in total you could expect to hatch with a full inventory of eggs?

They absolutely gained unauthorized access to the data. Their access was not intended or sanctioned. If it was intended to be public and accessible like it was, this wouldn't be a story and they wouldn't have locked down the access.

That would be a massive step I didn't expect to see in my life.

They absolutely exploited unintended functionality. If this was intended, they wouldn't have added rate limiting and locked down the api after. It was clear to say this was certainly not an intended use of the api.

In a video game for example, if there is a an item that caused excessive lagging just by placing the item. Placing a lot of them with the intent to lag the game would be an exploit. They only used items sanctioned by the game, but for unintended reasons and they would likely be banned for exploitation.

They gained unauthorized access. From that guys definition that is a hack, no an exploit

Not a good time to be a whistle blower it seems

Sounds great!

I too see the broken icon. Just a white clip art image with a triangular exclamation mark warning sign over it.

How'd you brew it?

It's literally the first lines of the article. This was an evil twin attack to man in the middle traffic

Very cool, thanks for the background! Crazy how far we've come technologically. Yea I was sure there was a real, valid reason but it just thought it was a bit silly in the wording.