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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by kmeisthax on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:53PM (#24075347)
Misappropriating trade secrets for financial gain is a punishable offense, and this data would qualify as a trade secret, at least for as long as it's not general knowledge to everyone or it has yet to be reverse-engineered. Aside from that, much of the data in these files has standard copyright and patent concerns.
Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by Nasrudith on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:02PM (#24075943)
Wouldn't financial gain limit it to essentially their competitors? Which renders that part irrelevant and is kind of a "no shit" to anyone actually working in processors not to include their stuff in there.
Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by sroussey on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:32PM (#24076515)
Also: financial damage
Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by pizza on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:34PM (#24075698)
OK then, out of curiosity, what are the relevant laws being broken here?
Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by gilgoomesh on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:08AM (#24078159)
Wire fraud and, trade secrets acts are the two that are usually applied in these cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_and_wire_fraud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defend_Trade_Secrets_Act

Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by formerly_proven on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:47PM (#24076237)
Copyright infringement probably works for them.