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Depending on the exact level of stupidity clinging to the judge on that day, some jurisdictions might consider this “hacking.”
One case from the states that was luckily dismissed: https://uk.pcmag.com/security/136282/missouri-gov-goes-after-reporter-who-found-shockingly-bad-flaw-in-state-website https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-is-the-hacking-investigation-into-journalist-who-clicked-view-source-on-government-website/
Germany for example. There was just the Modern Solutions case and the ruling was that using a hex editor to get hardcoded MySQL passwords from a binary is considered hacking