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by sailormoon 5824 days ago
How about "to prove he wasn't just making the whole thing up"?
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He didn't have to. We're talking about the real world here, not kindergarten. If he absolutely had to go public, he could at least anonymize the data before handing it over to a journalist.
Then just redact it. Remove sensitive data.