[dependenttypes]

> it's not legal to take

How about to copy?

I think that a better comparison would be with an armoured truck having left open its doors and spilling top secret documents all over the road.

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printing money as a non-government entity is always illegal. when, where or how doesn't matter.

[dependenttypes]

I did not say printing though. Copying could as well be taking a picture of them.

If you want to print them though, I am pretty sure that it is legal as long as you include a clear disclaimer that they are fake.

[viraptor]

> Copying could as well be taking a picture of them.

These are very different things and regulated in different ways. This is some weird version of strawman.

[dependenttypes]

I do not see how, given that this is about the equifax events. Is it really different if you copy a "top secret" text file or if you take photographs of your screen displaying it?

[viraptor]

Nobody will care if you take a photo of money. Copying the money, as in making a physical copy is a problem.

This is different from information which is inherently not physical, so any copy of representation is a copy. The grey area of course is a lossy copy... redistributed low-res copies of art, etc.