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1. Chance-Device · 1790200522 · focus · HN ↗

   > He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.

   “Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.

   1. api · 1790201623 · focus · HN ↗

      You’d be surprised how bad security can be.

      1. Avicebron · 1790201907 · focus · HN ↗

         Once you learn how much people are willing to pay for security the surprise sort of goes away.
      2. Chance-Device · 1790202439 · focus · HN ↗

         I agree with your sentiment, and no I’m not surprised, which is why I’m reading this as being “it was sitting on an unsecured S3 bucket but nobody was supposed to directly access it”.

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