Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords

Re:Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords by code_duck on Friday November 11, 2011 @08:38PM (#3226843)

I consider my email to be like a personal folder, where I have an expectation of privacy. If I accidentally left my briefcase at your office, I would hope you wouldn't look through it.

If you found the keys to a room full of filing cabinets with other people's papers, it wouldn't be right to go open them all. Similarly, if you find a list of credentials that grant you access to the electronic documents of others, it's not right to use those credentials. Of course 'downloading a car' is a terrible metaphor, but comparing electronic documents to printed documents seems very straightforward.

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Re:Redditor finds list of 47k email addresses with passwords by __david__ on Saturday November 12, 2011 @01:06AM (#3227272)

If we're forcing physical metaphors, I think it's more like finding a stack of 47000 briefcases in an alley somewhere. Unattended, no signs or anything. Opening a bunch of them to just see if people's stolen documents are inside seems reasonable in that case.

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