Discovering contents of folders in Windows without permissions, (Tue, Feb 18th)

I recently noticed an interesting side effect of the way in which Windows handles local file permissions, which makes it possible for a non-privileged user to brute-force contents of a folder for which they don&#x27t have read access (e.g. Read or List folder contents) permissions. It is possible that it is a known technique, however as I didn&#x27t find any write-ups on it anywhere, I thought I&#x27d share it here.