{"id":2541,"date":"2002-11-01T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T08:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/01\/guessing-urls-could-get-you-sued\/"},"modified":"2002-11-01T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T08:08:50","slug":"guessing-urls-could-get-you-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200211\/guessing-urls-could-get-you-sued\/","title":{"rendered":"Guessing URLs could get you sued!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font Size = -1><br \/>Intentia International, which makes collaborative business software, charged that Reuters hacked into the Intentia Web site to gain access to Intentia&#8217;s third quarter financial report before the report was released publicly. <br \/>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 &#8220;2Q&#8221; in the URL of the older Web page to &#8220;3Q&#8221; to access the new financial results.<br \/>&#8220;&#8230; no fooling around with a password, numeric code or whatever,&#8221; said Reuters spokesman Peter Thomas. <\/font> <\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetwk.com\/breakingNews\/INW20021031S0008\">Internet Week<\/a> via <a Href = \"http:\/\/www.webjives.com\"> Webjives<\/a><br \/>This is getting sillier all the time.  First it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontlink.com\">don&#8217;t link<\/a>. Now it is don&#8217;t access. <br \/>And in unrelated news, &#8220;The Examined Life&#8221; now requires you to request for permission by email before you click on any link on this site. The email id can be found <a href = \"mailto: joke\" title = \"Don't click here\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intentia International, which makes collaborative business software, charged that Reuters hacked into the Intentia Web site to gain access to Intentia&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}