content: It was all public information, only if you paid enough for it. Open source is the worst fucking possible way to describe it.  It's attempting to discredit the open source software community when it was not at all involved in this beach.  Open source software is a threat to a totalitarian government because groups of people are able to read and compile complex source code themselves to ensure that no government backdoors exist (a backdoor bypassing user login protection for example). The proper way to refer to this "beach" is "An improperly configured server was holding confidential information and required no user authentication to access the stored data"