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How is a fucking URL all you need to access confidential evidence on a police server. Lets bruteforce some URLs i guess?
There was a piece a while ago of a guy that went to expired domains in Belgium, happened to buy an old domain from the police, and all of a sudden, started to have emails from the police with a mail server. Crazy how no one checked the domain.
Edit: found the URL here. And there was other institutions hit as well, not just police
Yeah i saw that back then, it happened multiple time with different organizations iirc.
Ask Adrian Lamo. He "hacked" a few sites just by clicking links
Or Aaron Swartz...
In germany its also catastrophic. I remember three stories off the top of my head where security researchers were raided or sued after properly reporting massive security issues in company software.