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What are the legal implications of having registered on this forum once with a personal email account but not having ever engaged in any transaction or download

• jacquesm 4y ago
  Your name will end up on a list. Such lists can be queried by those that are properly connected, typically LE/three (and in some countries four) letter agencies if your name ever turns up in some other context and then it might be given some weight, but other than that I wouldn't expect anything to come of it assuming that you are telling the truth. Such inter-service requests for information on particular individuals are pretty regular but someone first has to ask for you by name, and in a country with proper privacy protections typically a judge would have to sign off on such a broad request, but these mechanisms are not always perfect. Reading threads isn't a crime, but hanging out in places where lots of criminals hang out doesn't help you in the association department.
  • dannyw 4y ago
    Unless you have some reason to be there, eg negotiating with someone who hacked your service.
• ianhawes 4y ago
  Hard to say, but rest assured that countless "white hat" infosec companies have also signed up and probably purchased stolen databases in furtherance of their own business activities.