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Ask HN: New term for "stolen" data/secrets etc
Seeing posts & comments about the "stealing" of data && || secrets. Let's use a new term - data isn't "stolen" unless the old copies are erased.
Copied without permission? Forcecopied?
- cschmidt 13y agoLiberated?
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoThat's still the concept of "taking" from the other in a zero-sum sense.
- N0uveau 13y agoForged?
- quantumpotato_ 13y agoDid you mean foraged? Forged would mean an imitation of data.
- N0uveau 13y agoForged, as in a meticulously recreated work of art, possibly indistinguishable from the original, done for nefarious purposes and passed of as the original. But foraged isn't bad either.