Hole in nbr.co.nz paywall

Update: NBR have fixed the hole

It looks like the National business review has a hole in their paywall. I don’t know if this is an intentional hole but as at the time I’m posting this it enables people to read articles that are “subscriber only content”.

A sample restricted article by Chris Keall “Did Paul Reynolds collect millions for hitting squishy targets?”  If I browse to it via http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/did-paul-reynolds-collect-millions-hitting-squishy-targets-109070 I get an error message:

Blocked version of article

However if I take the article number ( 109070 )  and access it via the URL http://www.nbr.co.nz/print/109070 I can see the whole article content:

Visible version of atcile

I guess somebody made a little mistake with the way the setup things or possibly this is designed to allow search engines like google to still find and index NBR’s content.

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