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City of Columbus sues man after he discloses severity of ransomware attack(arstechnica.com)

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Mayor said data was unusable to criminals; researcher proved otherwise.

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assembly@lemmy.world
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How do these people even navigate life if they are blaming the security researcher for using public tools to download data from a public site? Is it “hacking” because the URl looks “funny” and ends in .onion?

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Upvoting for Streisand Effect. ;)

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