In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia’s public web site. Intentia claims that the report was “not available through normal channels,” according to AP. (Also see Financial Times and CNET News.com reports.) DES

  • Selmafudd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Man the guessing the url part just trigger a memory for me but I can’t remember what the site was… Was a website back in early/mid 2000s that used to do a girl of the day post, it was originally a clothed and naked shot but for some reason around 2006 that stopped having the links for the naked shits, you used to have to manually add a N to the end of the url… Anyone remember what that site was, page style was heavily black with fluro green accents

    • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know that specific site but lots of porn sites used to do those “preview of the day” things with a date or iterator in the URL.

      I remember writing a simple script/page (must have been around 2002) where you could just paste a URL with wildcards and the wildcards could be iterated from x to y. It even checked if the generated linked page existed or threw http errors. It was amazing, how many links I collected and never visited again. The things you do for porn…

      • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Nothing can stand between a horny 15 year old and his porn.

        PS How did you get the monospace username display? How do I get the same? Can we do this for any font?

        • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          You can set a displayed name in your profile and you can use Unicode characters for it. I use an Android app called “Stylish Text” for conversion but I am sure there are countless other options out there.