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That might need to be qualified: depending on jurisdiction, just because if you don't have a contract with Apple, you shouldn't necessarily assume you're safe f
by SEMW 13y ago
That might need to be qualified: depending on jurisdiction, just because if you don't have a contract with Apple, you shouldn't necessarily assume you're safe from civil liability (if you use or pass it on to others, at least). Here in England, in some circumstances it's possible to be held liable in Breach of Confidence for passing on information you come across that you know is confidential, even without any kind of pre-existing relationship like a NDA.
(N.B. I have no idea whether that's true anywhere else but England. Also IANAL, this isn't legal advice, etc.)
- zurn 13y agoWhen it's posted on the front page of a news site, it's hardly confidential any more...
- SEMW 13y agoTrue. I was thinking of the submitter, though - it's not obvious to me that a court would consider a file uploaded to an anonymous file sharing site is part of the public domain (test: 'so generally accessible that it cannot be regarded as confidential') before it reached the front page of hn.