20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by msbarnett on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:00PM (#24075414)

>Which country laws does apply?

At the very least, Intel owns the copyright on this material, so sharing it is a copyright violation in any country that is a signatory to the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement, which is effectively almost the entire planet.

Then you have to add Trade Secret laws on top of that, which will have slightly narrower jurisdiction but still impact a lot of countries. There are very few places on earth where you would not be facing any legal trouble whatsoever for releasing this material.

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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by mindfulhack on Friday August 07, 2020 @03:25AM (#24079261)

Interesting info!

Here's a good list of potential candidate countries which are neither in Berne Convention nor TRIPS Agreement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#List_of_count...

It may take effort and money to be protected, e.g. setting up a legal entity in that country which takes full responsibility and you cannot be legally forcibly unmasked as being a proprietor, and other local laws may need to be fully checked out to explore other risks.

Nothing is a guarantee and perfection doesn't exist but it's fun to explore these legal layers.

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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by dathinab on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:43PM (#24076208)

But that only matters if given country also prosecute you effectively.

You probably find quite a bunch of countries where it's illegal but not prosecuted. Through I only know if Russia.

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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by drudru11 on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:43PM (#24087610)

Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread. In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file. What is TFA?

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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by msbarnett on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:31PM (#24096824)

If you’re referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20110301, it stands for “The Fucking Article” as in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html

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Re:20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tool... by drudru11 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @12:33AM (#24097282)

Haha - thanks :-) I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.

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