It features intentionally exploiting a vulnerability because said bug’s obvious remediation would open a much more useful information disclosure

There’s also Enigma/Ultra style cover-stories for intelligence so as not to reveal the source of information

And the vulnerability itself involves a relatively narrow disclosure mixed with clever machine learning, social analysis, and correlation to turn that into complete disclosure

The Minecraft server in question (because yes this is about minecraft) has a very interesting political definition of “hacking” in the same way speedrunning has a lot of definitions for “glitches.” You’re allowed to cheat, but not _too much_

Anyway someone should pitch an aritcle to Ars or something, I think it’d be a fascinating read without the self-aggrandising gonzo perspetive