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forteller - This sounds like Aaron Swartz all over again :(
A teenager in Canada who downloaded several thousand public freedom-of-information requests records has been raided by police and accused of "stealing" private information
@forteller Reminds me of the opening arrest scene in Brazil. What's wrong with a polite knock on the door, explaining yourself and take it from there? Why barge in and mess up a family like this?
@forteller except even more petty :-(
Plus, just a simple GET one-liner. If anyone should be punished it's the agency for failing to properly secure the info that was to have been secured.
@forteller Holy crap, not this again. Haven't we learned from our mistakes handling Aaron's case?
New development in the case mybroadband.co.za/news/securit…
Gah. My nick is in that toot because I first shared it with an AMP link. So I copied the text of the toot, deleted it, and then pasted the text plus an AMP free link. Didn't see my name was in there