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		shasta on July 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal. I think it's a stretch to call reading something "access". If someone leaves their private banking documents face up on a table, I'd expect it to be legal to read them.

tptacek on July 7, 2011 [–]

Sure. Like I said: what did you do with the data? What prompted you to access it in the first place?

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