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Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by EamonnMR on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:17PM (#16855178)
Let's say he picked his first random URL and got someone's tax documents. A reasonable person would probably report it and quit prying. But it sounds like the bad documents where mixed in with good documents that he was downloading programmatically, so a reasonable person probably would not have the time to read every single document to determine if it contained personal information.
Re:Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files fr... by harryh on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:20PM (#16855191)
Yes, that's what I was getting at when I said:

"the data in the documents was not easily identifiable as private"

as a mitigating factor.