d_barszczak Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Whats your opinion? If your bored and decide to scan for open smb ports on your isp. This then results in you finding out that some moron has shared his My Documents to the internet with all his business information and finance info with NO PASSWORD required to access the share. Are you hacking or are you accessing a share that is available to the public? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 That depends on how the law of the country in question is formulated. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-541720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
947740 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 That depends on how the law of the country in question is formulated. From a moral standpoint, I would say it is hacking no matter what the law is. You are still seeing possibly sensitive information that you could use against that company. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-542166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_barszczak Posted May 20, 2008 Author Share Posted May 20, 2008 From a moral standpoint you would know that the files are sensitive and you should not really be sniffing for open ports. But if law came knocking at your door what do you think the outcome would be. This stems from a video a watched on you tube where a large amount of people set there My Docs as their lime wire share directory. Some clever sod then typed in company account and did a document search. This also returned some interesting results. Is the above example carless file sharing or hacking? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-545598 Share on other sites More sharing options...
947740 Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Both. The people that put their documents out there were carelessly sharing their files, while the "clever sod" was hacking. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-545649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
br0ken Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Is it burgling if someone leaves their unlocked (or wide open in some cases) and someone enters their house and looks at/takes their stuff? Yes, in my opinion this constitutes as burgling. However, the owner of the house could easily have avoided this if he took the simple step of closing and locking his door. While this type of hacking is wrong I think it's about time people start taking responsibility for their bad security practises. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-576675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 Hrmmm anyone happen to know of the top of their head if it's illegal to port scan in the US? I know it is in a few other countries.... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-576789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeB Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 It isn't. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/105719-hacking-or-file-sharing/#findComment-578714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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