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Isn't this basically how weev got sent to federal prison?


No, there is a difference between accessing things and publishing things with malicious intent.


Most people would not call only releasing the data to a journalist "publishing", and much less "with malicious intent".

weev didn't put his dump up on the pirate bay, he sent it to Gawker.




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