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Yea, I don't understand the response to him here. You can just tell the random student who wants the keys to the student database "no" and go about your day.


It's almost like this one-sided story is leaving some things out.


Victim blaming is not cool. These types of over-the-top legal threats in response to good-faith engagement are extremely common and it's why bug bounties have safe harbor protections.


Nope. Universities are wild and their technology is weak. It’s always been this way.


You seem to not understand what a "key" is in computer science.


Please don't cross into personal attack.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


No, I do. It was an informal usage; they were requesting access to an internal web service and universities don't give that out to every student who asks.




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