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anyone know if clicking on that cs_dump.txt link is going to lead to criminal charges against the people in posession of it?

I'm curious, but not PMITA-potential levels of curious. There's really likely not a lot of useful information in there for me, anyways.

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Please don't use acronyms such as PMITA. If you want to say, "Pound Me In The Ass," as in, "Go to Pound-Me-In-The-Ass-Federal Prison," it is a lot easier to read in expanded form.

Wouldn't that be pretty fucking insane though, to get imprisoned for opening a page that you had reason to believe the government didn't want you to see? Sentenced to life in prison for Unlawful Use of Eyesight.

If you're worried about that actually happening, you just might live in a police state, don't you think?

But let us never doubt that governments are a wondrous, necessary and Just institution. Sometimes they just have to torture you to death to maintain order for, you know, the greater good and all.

People have gone to jail for doing exactly what this looks like it could be -- clicking on a link, sent by a friend, containing material stolen in a data breach.

I didn't know what was in there. I'm not really interested in finding out what was in there, by having to talk to police about something the next time I fly somewhere.

Of course people have. People are being tortured to death by governments this very moment.

The point was the utter insanity of it all, of the same way of societal organization of rulers and subjects continuing for millenia on end.

Tyranny intensifies, and tyranny loosens up, but no matter how many times our rulers prove to us that having rulers is a bad idea, the masses keep accepting them anyway.

That you feel the need to ask this question is the best argument against the 'Nothing to Hide' logic there is.

If you were the only person besides the uploader to have a copy of the file, you should be worried. But now that potentially thousands of people have the same file, you don't have much to worry about. With that said, I wouldn't download it from my home IP address (or work) directly :).

Depends on what's in the file ;)

I don't know about you, but I think the fact that one may save the information from being banned from the internet by saving it to our computer is incentive enough to risk all the bullshit they may try.

Was that link removed from the webpage ? I find no cs_dump.txt reference.

edit: ah, found it. It's on the second page.

Here's a good way to find out: http://www.httrack.com/

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