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Use a VPN. All eyes will be on this.

• tomp 12y ago
  So? Is it illegal to download leaked data? Or only if you're a newspaper?
  • fabulist 12y ago
    I have no idea about the legality, but it could make your life difficult if you (or someone close to you) want to get a security clearance at some point, or have one and would like to keep it when the time comes to renew it.
    • allegory 12y ago
      I've had security clearance (DV in UK) and a rapist axe murderer could get it. They have virtually no info on anyone and pretty just base it on your likelihood of compliance. Its easy to game.
      • fabulist 12y ago
        Maybe so. The only person I know with security clearance says that when they have to renew it, people come and interview them, their neighbors, family members, etc. To go to that trouble without checking their internet history seems foolish, but that doesn't mean that they do it. (This is in the USA; I don't know what level of clearance they have, but I know they work on classified projects.)
        • allegory 12y ago
          They do the same in the UK but you can quite happily run anonymous accounts and be knee deep in anarchy and they wouldn't know.