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by sneak 2529 days ago
It feels that way, but there is definitely a different utility value in “searchable by the whole world” and “leaked in obscure formats in small nonpublic forums”.

Troy has absolutely added value here, although 100% of the data is all “public” from having been leaked already.

Searching over data that was publicly available some time in the past (but isn’t now) is also a value, sort of like time-shifting of the publicness of the data...