You can unlawfully use things that are public the fact they admit they know the opening is unintended makes it clearly hacking. Stop trying to undermine an accomplishment simply because you don’t like the connotations you link together in your head.
Federal law specifically and in multiple prohibits unlicensed/unwanted entry into government devices, you don’t know what you’re talking about you simply feel it shouldn’t be illegal which is a different thing entirely.
If you know it’s not intended to be open then you notify someone it’s white hat hacking.
Iirc they actually modified it which removes any doubt.
Its a public API. This is not hacking any more than me using curl to read your comment without authenticating is hacking.
You can unlawfully use things that are public the fact they admit they know the opening is unintended makes it clearly hacking. Stop trying to undermine an accomplishment simply because you don’t like the connotations you link together in your head.
I’m just explaining how the law works
You’re not though.
Federal law specifically and in multiple prohibits unlicensed/unwanted entry into government devices, you don’t know what you’re talking about you simply feel it shouldn’t be illegal which is a different thing entirely.