Update: It turns out the DA was trolling. We all now know that DrupalCon North America 2016 will be in New Orleans. I’ve kept this post up as I believe the information about handling unpublished nodes is relevant.
When a user doesn't have access to content in Drupal a 403 forbidden response is returned. This is the case out of the box for unpublished content. The problem with this is that sensitive information may be contained in the URL.