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Yeah, I agree Auernheimer was a much more attractive target for prosecution, but do you think this student is legally safe in what they're doing here?

I would personally not scrape the endpoint to collect statistics and inform the severity estimation, but I'm a lot more risk averse than most. But prosecution of good-faith security research is disfavored, so as long as you don't do anything to breach the assumption of good faith (as defendants in the trial you mentioned repeatedly did) I think you're probably fine.

The bigger thing is just that there's no actual win in scraping here. It doesn't make the vulnerability report any more interesting; it just reads like they're trying to make the whole thing newsier. Some (very small) risk, zero reward.

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