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by trhway 51 days ago
>Then it should also be illegal to write "I am an FBI agent" in a text file and upload it to Github.

i think it may affect how people would communicate with you there. And based on that it would seem like impersonation, wouldn't it?
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fluoridation 51 days ago
May it? untitled.txt with the content "I am an FBI agent" and no further context could lead a human to think the author is stating they are an FBI agent? Okay, sure. Then let's go a step further. The repository is private and you never share it with anyone. At that point, the sentence is just as visible as when you type it into Google's search box or into a chatbot's window. Is that impersonation too?
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trhway 51 days ago
If Google provides you with different search results, some results that are intended for law enforcement only... Granted, extremely bad security, yet that argument didn't prevent say credit card fraud convictions.
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fluoridation 51 days ago
Does it? I thought we were talking about the actual state of things, not about how they could conceivably be.
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