But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug
I feel like “bug” is doing a looot of heavy lifting here.
Is it a bug though in this case? To me a bug is when a program behaves in a way that’s not intended. This might very well be a case of the program behaving exactly as intended, except the intentions of the people who made it were wrong.
I feel like “bug” is doing a looot of heavy lifting here.
It also illustrates how a security vulnerability is simply a bug, albeit a dangerous one.
Is it a bug though in this case? To me a bug is when a program behaves in a way that’s not intended. This might very well be a case of the program behaving exactly as intended, except the intentions of the people who made it were wrong.
An online service is a program (or a bunch of program).
Giving access when it’s not supposed to falls into behaving in a way that’s not intended.
Therefore, an online service giving access when it’s not supposed to can be classified as a program behaving in a way that’s not intended.
Thus, this case fits into your very definition.