Monday, April 20, 2015
Wikileaks pubs hacked Sony data, says it should be public domain; users might run legal risks
Cnet (story by Steven Musil) is reporting that
Wikileaks has republished some of the hacked Sony data (ostensibly by North
Korea, in conjunction with the movie “The Interview”) on a searchable database,
story here.
Julian Assange insists that the data should be in the
public domain because it is in the center of a geopolitical conflict. But should the personal information of Sony
employees and contractors be included in that p.d. area? I hope not.
The leaked data even included some pirated movies and
books. I’d be flattered if mine were
included.
There could be at least a remote legal risk to a blogger’s deliberately linking to this
database, given the Barrett Brown case in Texas discussed here before.
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