[HN Gopher] Show HN: DontBore - Accessible, fast, low-footprint ...
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Show HN: DontBore - Accessible, fast, low-footprint Login sharing
for the masses
Author : midzer
Score : 42 points
Date : 2023-04-22 17:40 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (dontbo.re)
(TXT) w3m dump (dontbo.re)
| WallyFunk wrote:
| I guess I have to ask: is this a legal grey area? The UK claims
| sharing of things like Netflix passwords is illegal[0]. That
| said, people pay for Netflix, so they wouldn't be dumping those
| creds on sites like this for all to plunder.
|
| But I still think we need more of these 'skeleton key' type
| sites, not just one. It's great that it's open source and on
| GitHub[1] and I encourage as many people as possible to host
| their own instance.
|
| We can't afford another BugMeNot type shutdown. The Internet
| needs these types of sites badly, even though it's a possible
| legal grey area (Don't forget pass sharing is forbidden in some
| ToS).
|
| [0] https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/password-sharing-illegal-
| gov...
|
| [1] https://github.com/midzer/dontbore/
| traceroute66 wrote:
| > The UK claims sharing of things like Netflix passwords is
| illegal[0].
|
| The newspaper article you linked to mentions the ICO talking
| about copyright law.
|
| Personally I think it would be more of a clear-cut case under
| the UK Computer Misuse Act, "Unauthorised access to computer
| material": A person is guilty of an offence
| if-- (a) he causes a computer to perform any function
| with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any
| computer or to enable any such access to be secured; (b)
| the access he intends to secure, or to enable to be secured, is
| unauthorised; and (c) he knows at the time when he
| causes the computer to perform the function that that is the
| case.
|
| And in terms of somebody operating a password sharing website,
| "Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in offence":
| (1)A person is guilty of an offence if he makes, adapts,
| supplies or offers to supply any article intending it to be
| used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, an offence
| under section 1, 3 or 3ZA (2)A person is guilty of an
| offence if he supplies or offers to supply any article
| believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist
| in the commission of, an offence under section 1, 3 or 3ZA
| (3)A person is guilty of an offence if he obtains any article--
| (a)intending to use it to commit, or to assist in the
| commission of, an offence under section 1, 3 or 3ZA, or
| (b)with a view to]its being supplied for use to commit, or to
| assist in the commission of, an offence under [F21section 1, 3
| or 3ZA]. (4)In this section " article " includes any
| program or data held in electronic form.
| dorilama wrote:
| password sharing has been removed from the mentioned webpage of
| IPO [0]
|
| [0]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/meta-
| counterfeit-...
| Operyl wrote:
| I find it funny someone submitted an HN account just created.
| Seems like a good way to possibly get your main in trouble,
| assuming the moderation tooling links your main and newly created
| throwaway.
| gkbrk wrote:
| How does this compare to BugMeNot [1]?
|
| [1]: https://bugmenot.com
| hosteur wrote:
| Not the author. But I guess one difference is that this is not
| bugmenot. Many sites blacklist accounts from bugmenot. Now
| there is an alternative. This is of course a whack-mole-game.
| But when it works it works.
| mason96 wrote:
| [dead]
| [deleted]
| smashed wrote:
| Why is the main call to action is to perform a search by domain
| name?
|
| There are like 12 domains total in the list...
|
| May be I am not understanding how it works.
| tecleandor wrote:
| The idea is you can share credentials for any site/domain. So
| right now there are only 12, but there could be hundreds or
| thousands.
| gverrilla wrote:
| Problem is the label says "all domains". Not very clear.
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