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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by dependenttypes on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @03:16PM (#23469786)
> theft

You can't steal data unless if you intentionally delete the original after copying, but then that is not really theft as any proper organisation will have backups.

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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:18PM (#23472523)
You know what is meant. This kind of pedantry doesn't add to the conversation.

"Theft" is a nice easy word for making a copy of data that you do not have permission to access.

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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by mc32 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:40PM (#23470657)
So someone steals a book from a library isn’t theft because they have secondary copies?
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Re:Is Sudo Almost Useless? by 0_gravitas on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:25PM (#23471647)
A better analogy would be photocopying all the contents of one of the books and putting it back on the shelf
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