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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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