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Major publisher fails to protect ebooks, allowing free download.

1 pointsby anony-micealmost 13 years ago
Recently, while looking up book reviews, I inadvertently discovered that a major publisher had failed to secure some of their ebooks from being downloaded for free.<p>Most of the chapter pdf links are indexed by Google, and those that are not, can be easily found because of the simple name pattern of the files.<p>I've contacted someone from the company, but received no response and after checking, the problem hasn't been fixed.<p>This is a company that in the past has, to my knowledge, taken action against illegal ebook sharers, a problem decidedly harder to fix/handle than say, aspects that fall under their direct control, such as the security of their own products.<p>Obviously I'm not naming them publicly because I don't want to risk getting sued, but how would you handle this, HN?<p>I'm thinking about just letting it go.

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Flamalmost 13 years ago
Post in on pastebin, claim anonymous hacked them. Just kidding. Email them again in a week, if there's no reply blog about it.