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Should it be illegal? They shared a public link to a spreadsheet exposed on a .gov address. If anything, it's the owner of that .gov address that needs to get in trouble for placing sensitive documents in a publicly accessible ___location.



You think the government would have put the document under the URL "oops-we-did-it-again.html?"

C'mon, at least RTFA before falling over yourself to support the anti-government position.


I think I read that differently. I read it that they gathered the data, put together the spreadsheet and hosted on a .gov address. Is there an article that is more clear about that?


The owner of the .gov address wasn't hosting the file until Anonymous put it there.


Pointing out that the emperor is naked is often frowned on by the government.


If they're just exposing an existing document, then you're right, but the way I interpreted it was Anonymous uploaded the document to the .gov site.




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