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They can detain you briefly for something as simple as wearing jeans if someone committed a crime while wearing jeans but typically this is only for a handful of minutes. These reporters were fully arrested which is a different standard as you've written already.

With increasing adoption of reCaptcha v3 which won't let you browse on any page without Javascript, it will become harder and harder to use the internet with NoScript enabled.

>Similarly i.reddit.com

Try https://old.reddit.com

It's so bad that people made Browser Extensions for Firefox[0] and Chrome[1]

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

>The fact that you did not commit the initial theft does not put you in the clear. Source: a lawsuit that I won with exactly that theme.

In terms of criminal law, it is favorable to me. Source: I was criminally accused and have a court judgement clearing me of wrongdoing for possessing information that was stolen by 3rd parties and published online before I obtained it.

>So from one aspect of the law you are in the clear, from another this is an open-and-shut case of copyright violation

I am satisfied that merely possessing stolen information and not distributing or profiting from it is not a copyright violation if the source code can even be copyrighted.

>But just like downloading copyrighted material is illegal so is downloading copyrighted data from a source that you know does not have the option to legally give you a license to copy or use that data

I have not agreed to be bound by any licenses from Cisco before downloading the data nor did I necessarily know what it was before downloading a zip from a file sharing site.

I'm happy to discuss this over email if you want me to reach out for debate.

Not a crime to possess information, not property, that was illegally obtained in either USA or my own country provided you didn't counsel or encourage the original theft.

> If they can do it to Microsoft, they can do it to anyone else who has a GitHub account.

It happened to Cisco as well a while back, I have a copy of that source somewhere.

I searched a few emails in some local copies of data breaches and found real results

My Runescape money making adventures paid for most of my life, even to this day.

On the bright side, nobody else is booking hotels anymore so they have time to fix their systems this time around.

Tell me about it, I was very publicly accused and never convicted. Fortunately I'm independently wealthy but it's a huge pain to get anyone to do large financial transactions WITH me, not talking about employment in that industry. On the employment side I just assume I'm unemployable in the security industry where my talents are so I just engage in hobbies all day every day... End rant.