I admit it, I'm a porn hound at times. There's always more out there that's interesting to see, and I like to try to find it. But I also have a very weird quirk that since I started looking at online porn by decoding the pictures off of net.news, I can't talk myself into actually paying for online smut.
So what's a porn hound to do? Well, it's simple really, I just snag it when I can. I don't break into sites per se, I just don't necessarily enter through the doors they expect me to use.
It's not hard, I'm sure you've done it yourself at some point... someone sends you a link to something interesting, and you wonder what else is on the site.
What's the first thing you try? Remove the filename from the URL. Do you have any idea how many sites allow directory listing of their content? Tons and tons of them, it's great. In fact, one place I ran into, once you got the link to the "member" content, you could see that they protected it by putting it in a subdirectory called /member/ . But I could, from a single picture someone sent me, walk through most of the rest of their content, even though I'd never been near a member of that site (to the best of my knowledge).
But, not all places are so lax. Some places won't let you get a directory listing page. No big problem, let's try altering the name a little bit. For instance, someone sends you a link to a picture, and the url ends in pict003.jpg, my immediate thought is "I wonder what 1 and 2 were". Yup, it can be that simple. "I wonder how many more there are." "Oh look this one goes from 1 to 11." And it's not just numbers, some places get a little tricky and go with letters instead of numbers. But we all learned our abc's as well as our 123's, right? I've seen some get tricky and do only evens or odds, and the most complex one I ran into (and managed to figure out) was counting by 3s.
That's it... how much simpler can that be? Sure, they gave me no index, they thought they had that content safely hidden behind some links, some web pages, but the content was there and since it's a web server, it wants to show it to me, it's what it does.
To all your purveyors of smut, I thank you, seriously. I do appreciate it, I know it's a lot of work, and I do like what I see, and I have been known to pay for smut in video form. And a lot of the things I'm getting to are samples to encourage me to sign up for your services, but there's still a lot more out there floating around than I think you really planned to let free.
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