convore.json/groups/hacker-news/what-do-you-do-when-you-notice-an-error-on-someones-site/messages.json

[{"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299648749.4220059, "message": "I've done this from time to time, but not in a while. Sometimes I don't get any reply; sometimes I get a thank you; a couple of times I've had a conversation.", "group_id": 95, "id": 302197}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299648717.541482, "message": "I just found a misspelling, \"confortable\", on someone's site, so I shot over a quick email.", "group_id": 95, "id": 302193}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299648811.8491631, "message": "I'm just curious what experiences other have had with this, especially if you've received a correction from a stranger (I haven't yet, that went straight to me, anyway).", "group_id": 95, "id": 302200}, {"user_id": 14288, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299945927.501929, "user_id": 8501}, {"date_created": 1300428271.6300189, "user_id": 22250}], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299655571.19116, "message": "For startups send an email  to the founder . For M$ et.al take a screenshot and paste it online :) for cheap laughs.", "group_id": 95, "id": 302462}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299661299.740582, "message": "What @chriagchamoli said... if it's a small site I pop them a polite email, large site I just bitch in some form", "group_id": 95, "id": 302826}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299690020.6687119, "message": "learned that confortable is how you spell comfortable in French :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 306730}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299689951.9619429, "message": "nice. I do the same, come to think of it.", "group_id": 95, "id": 306724}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299689989.8834929, "message": "got a nice reply from the person who got my email to yesterday", "group_id": 95, "id": 306726}, {"user_id": 4935, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299690022.920095, "message": "http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/confortable", "group_id": 95, "id": 306731}, {"user_id": 8668, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299709470.2928481, "message": "yup - whenever I correct someone's spelling or grammar online, I always bear in mind that they may not be a native English speaker", "group_id": 95, "id": 309015}, {"user_id": 18382, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299721359.990845, "message": "I mentally ignore grammar and spelling mistakes, but when I see a factual mistake, especially on a big site, I send them a report and it is normally fixed within minutes.", "group_id": 95, "id": 309906}, {"user_id": 13501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299808235.9404531, "message": "Once I corrected a name in a blog post where they confused Linden Lab with another company, they simply removed my comment on their blog post. Not even mentioning any \"thanks\"", "group_id": 95, "id": 318607}, {"user_id": 17702, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299817901.397516, "message": "I once discovered a site's entire user database wide open in an unprotected directory. I told them, they thanked me, but they didn't fix it for several more months.", "group_id": 95, "id": 319306}, {"user_id": 17702, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299824629.446604, "message": "@itsnotvalid yeah. But it's still an error.", "group_id": 95, "id": 319882}, {"user_id": 13501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299823713.008729, "message": "@JimmyJett security is another thing...", "group_id": 95, "id": 319770}, {"user_id": 1208, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299843955.3206229, "message": "If I find an easy way to report that, I give them a report, and mention I'm freelancing in Ruby/Rails/Datamunging :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 321393}, {"user_id": 13501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299858883.515913, "message": "@JimmyJett security report are usually two folded - some may publicize it, some may follow \"responsible disclosure\"", "group_id": 95, "id": 323563}, {"user_id": 8501, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299948242.3048279, "message": "@JimmyJett While researching competitors for a B2B startup idea, I found that the market leader was storing all of its customers' uploaded files publicly on S3. The uploaded files were multimedia and customers were led to believe the files were private. Anyone who googled the search terms I had (which included site:amazonaws.com), had access to tens of thousands of multimedia files which included many business conversations. (I deduced this after playing a representative sample.) Since I was considering becoming a competitor in this space, I didn't run to assist the market leader in improving the security of their service. Now that I've moved on to a different startup idea, I should email that company in case they're unaware how insecure their customers' files are. That said, it's been over a year and they may have fixed the issue - plus I'd have to research again to find the second google search term which I've since forgotten. Adding this item to my medium priority to-do list...", "group_id": 95, "id": 333423}, {"user_id": 18530, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299979961.25599, "message": "@JimmyJett - whats B2B?", "group_id": 95, "id": 338165}, {"user_id": 20138, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1299992632.36024, "message": "Do nothing. Not my business.", "group_id": 95, "id": 338985}, {"user_id": 20884, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300007934.8743551, "message": "lol, I love when people forget to set proper permissions on critical directories, I once found a weird", "group_id": 95, "id": 339728}, {"user_id": 20884, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300008209.040098, "message": "...(why did it break off?)... CMS system with a folder called /admin/ and it was set to 777 so I went in and found a file called 'users.txt' so I opened it and there was all the user data. Security FAIL, I sent him/her an email and then the next day, on the front page there was the words \"SECURITY BREACH\" and a message telling people to change their passwords.", "group_id": 95, "id": 339741}, {"user_id": 9108, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300024208.0960219, "message": "@ahonorstudent I hope they also changed the permissions on the directory after that, haha.", "group_id": 95, "id": 340962}, {"user_id": 20884, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300052687.4057319, "message": "@JohnFail yea, and they moved the file.", "group_id": 95, "id": 343745}, {"user_id": 2343, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300396697.0453069, "message": "I usually let them know, and if I know a potential fix I'll let them know it too. Most of the time I receive a response.", "group_id": 95, "id": 377710}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300403705.406785, "message": "Also love all those friendly people exposing their django admin's publicly and settings logins as admin/password or admin/admin.", "group_id": 95, "id": 378498}, {"user_id": 7378, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11643, "date_created": 1300403668.2627299, "message": "Personally know them: tell them. Small companies: Email/DM them. Big Companies: Email once, if ignored - laugh.", "group_id": 95, "id": 378495}]