If Gmail proved anything, it was that people would, for the most part, accept any terms of service. Or at least not care enough to read the fine-print closely.
I still remember being a young kid (11-12) and running a program to scan my local ISP in my small town (back then small ISPs could easily get government grants and become a monopoly) for insecure SMB servers or something. I suddenly got a flood of results like
/private/passwords.txt
/administrator/USD###-users.txt
All kinds of tasty things. Very excite. Then the results started pouring in by the thousands…
YOU-ARE-VIOLATING-CFAA
FBI-DOORBELL
FIRSTNAME-LASTNAME.EXE
PWN3D-LMAONOOB
Things like that. I immediately shut my computer down and that was probably the first time my dad saw me not eat for a day. Didn’t ask why I wasn’t sleeping much the week after that 😄
I remember, at that time, I was more worried about how admins in my local ISP spend their time than some far away company.
I still remember being a young kid (11-12) and running a program to scan my local ISP in my small town (back then small ISPs could easily get government grants and become a monopoly) for insecure SMB servers or something. I suddenly got a flood of results like
/private/passwords.txt
/administrator/USD###-users.txt
All kinds of tasty things. Very excite. Then the results started pouring in by the thousands…
YOU-ARE-VIOLATING-CFAA
FBI-DOORBELL
FIRSTNAME-LASTNAME.EXE
PWN3D-LMAONOOB
Things like that. I immediately shut my computer down and that was probably the first time my dad saw me not eat for a day. Didn’t ask why I wasn’t sleeping much the week after that 😄