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Subject: 
Re: Policy clarification regarding catalogs
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sat, 18 Dec 1999 14:39:06 GMT
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 02:39:58 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:

It's snooping in stuff that they've made publicly available. Walking down
the public alley behind a store because you're curious about what might be
back there could possibly be called "snooping", but it's not unethical by
any means. (And I'm not talking about casing the joint for a future heist or
anything. *grin* That's a whole seperate issue.)

Interesting side-issue: what about going through the garbage in the
alley? I could see it either way - people don't generally leave
sensitive information in the dumpster, unless they're idiots, but
legally, is acquiring, say, hardware schematics from corporate
thrashcans illegal?

Jasper



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Reply-To: mattdm@mattdm.org Message-Id: <slrn85lsvu.1dq.matt...ia.bu.edu> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) (...) *shrug* It's snooping in stuff that they've made publicly available. Walking down the public alley behind a store because you're curious (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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