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If the information was already public-facing, was it not already 'released'?
by obstacle1 13y ago
If the information was already public-facing, was it not already 'released'?
- sigzero 13y agoNot in the general usage of that word, no.
- obstacle1 13y agoI'm not clear on what you mean. General usage of the word "release" necessitates prior confinement. Dumping a bunch of data on an open web server is not confining said data, it is making it public. Even if the data was previously confined -- by, say, company policy or copyright or whatever -- as soon as it is uploaded to the public-facing web server without protections it is released from confinement.