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by sneak 4835 days ago
What would be wrong with shorting ATT and smearing them in the media for having shit security? Why wouldn't you talk about that?

The list was never made public.

I doubt they were joking when discussing selling the list, or spearphishing, or spamming it, or pastebinning it. Turns out, though, that that would have been harmful to innocent people - which is why it was not done.

There was no crime here. ATT said as much before the indictment.