Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat

Re:Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat by obstacle1 on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @10:34PM (#6131561)

If the information was already public-facing, was it not already 'released'?

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Re:Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat by sigzero on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @07:47AM (#6133002)

Not in the general usage of that word, no.

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Re:Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat by obstacle1 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @06:41PM (#6137304)

I'm not clear on what you mean. General usage of the word "release" necessitates prior confinement. Dumping a bunch of data on an open web server is not confining said data, it is making it public. Even if the data was previously confined -- by, say, company policy or copyright or whatever -- as soon as it is uploaded to the public-facing web server without protections it is released from confinement.

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