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Originally Posted by NukePiracy
This is indeed true. But at the same time it's a grey area as I happen to know many law enforcement agency's worldwide do in fact use data from leaks such as this. If it's research or to prosecute in some circumstances it can be used.
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It is not a grey area, it is positively clear beyond any possibility for mis-understanding.
Law enforcement are permitted, by the legislation that covers their regulatory standing, to access certain data under particularly strict conditions and usually with the oversight of the judiciary (e.g.: warrants, oversight orders) and there are also checks and balances that are in place to ensure such data is not mis-used.
Be under no misapprehension that handling, communicating, viewing or otherwise using such leaked data, databases that are not secured properly, any form of data whereby the owner or custodian of the data did not intend public consumption, is an offence and punishable by very heavy penalties.
It is for this reason that our project only uses open source data.
WDF's veiled threat to MultiXXX about databases he may have controlled that have been hacked is well outside the bounds of what I deem acceptable - I don't want such threats in this thread (implied or direct) and I completely reject the motivation, declaration and possibility that such data may be used inappropriately or unlawfully.