The PDF, called “XnXX Video teachers fucking students Video porn Videos free XXX Hamster XnXX com” is unlike many of the other PDFs hosted on the city’s website, which include things like “2025-10-14 Council Minutes,” “Proposed Agenda 9-22-25,” and “Landlord Registration Form (1 & 2 unit dwelling).”

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    So someone can upload a PDF and link to it externally? That’s a REALLY dumb design. ANYTHING like that WILL be exploited.

    I’ve been doing web stuff since 1996, and while for professional projects I take security seriously, over the years I’ve put stuff up - largely “security by obscurity”… it usually flies under the radar, but not always. I remember also somewhere around 2010-2015 I installed a URL shortener so I could create private short URLs. By default, you didn’t have to log in to create one, which was convenient. And even though only I used it in places that wouldn’t get much attention, it still got found and abused.

    Anything widespread or with obvious flaws WILL get compromised and abused. It’s a hard lesson to learn, but there’s absolutely zero excuse for someone providing services to multiple government agencies to have an open system like that. That’s embarassing for them.

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    15 hours ago

    “unlike many of the other PDFs” suggests it’s not unlike all of the other PDFs. I’m curious what other city documents are like it.

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      15 hours ago

      As a municipal employee, I can verify that local politics result in a LOT of people getting fucked.