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		lph on Aug 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man steals 620k photos from iCloud accounts from h... > 4,700 with iCloud user IDs and passwords How does this amount to only four felonies?! Our system is so abysmally bad at understanding crimes of scale, especially when they happen over the internet. If he burgled 4,700 houses, it would be a lot more than four felonies.

IAmEveryone on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

That's because it's a lot scarier to meet someone in your apartment when you don't expect them than having you photos leaked.

(With the latter, strictly speaking, being a subset of the former anyway)

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