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Simply possessing the information (which is already freely available online) is not on its own unethical. It depends entirely upon what he does with the inform
by mi100hael 9y ago
Simply possessing the information (which is already freely available online) is not on its own unethical. It depends entirely upon what he does with the information, which in this case is protect the owners from malicious individuals who also have access to the information because it's freely available online.
- 2close4comfort 9y agoIt is if its stolen property...which most of that data belonged to the company that was hacked.
- emodendroket 9y agoI'm not going to pretend to understand the legal niceties here, but the analogy to "stolen property" rings false because 1) he's not depriving anybody of their passwords 2) the very fact they've been leaked means they aren't really of value anymore.