Is Bloomberg's website breaking the law?

2 points·nikolqy··4 comments

https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html

I got captchad on Bloomberg and Chrome started using 100% of my cpu. Just wanted to know if this is illegal because I have a 13900ks and I haven't optimized my mb settings so it overheated my computer. What a shitty tactic. Might just report it to ic3.gov

I'm half joking, but really, does anyone know about the legality of this, and does it behave the same way for you?

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No, it’s not illegal. Even if you could demonstrate a redressable injury (which is unlikely) theirs is not now —- and arguably could never be —- any legal requirement to write efficient, bug free code. Even if there were, good luck establishing that a hot loop was written with malicious intent.

If a stranger calls you up and tells you to go run around the block ten times at a full sprint, and you do it, and collapse with heat stroke ... it's not the stranger's fault.

Though they can still be an asshat, like Amazon is when they play every product video at full volume.

True, but accessing publically available pages on a company or government website can lead to criminal prosecution for unauthorized access. If Bloomberg snatches my keys and goes for a joyride, that's illegal. If they snatch my CPU and mine bitcoin...

I figure it could be illegal depending on the situation since as far as I know, it's illegal to have bitcoin mining js modules that load into users browsers.

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