Intentia International, which makes collaborative business software, charged that Reuters hacked into the Intentia Web site to gain access to Intentia’s third quarter financial report before the report was released publicly.
Reuters claims that all its reporter did was access the same URL that Intentia used to post its second-quarter results, then change the characters “2Q” in the URL of the older Web page to “3Q” to access the new financial results.
“… no fooling around with a password, numeric code or whatever,” said Reuters spokesman Peter Thomas. Internet Week via Webjives
This is getting sillier all the time. First it was don’t link. Now it is don’t access.
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