The only named defendant in the Anna's Archive 'WorldCat' hacking lawsuit suggests that the plaintiffs are going after the wrong person.

The only named defendant in the Anna’s Archive ‘WorldCat’ hacking lawsuit suggests that the plaintiffs are going after the wrong person.

  • Shurimal@kbin.social
    25·
    9 months ago

    In 2006, it became possible for anyone to search WorldCat directly at its open website [REDACTED], not only through the subscription FirstSearch interface where it had been available on the web to subscribing libraries for more than a decade before.

    So how is this “hacking” if the information is publicly accessible for all?