Ask HN: New term for "stolen" data/secrets etc

4 pointsquantumpotato_5 comments

Seeing posts & comments about the "stealing" of data && || secrets. Let's use a new term - data isn't "stolen" unless the old copies are erased.

Copied without permission? Forcecopied?

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Liberated?

That's still the concept of "taking" from the other in a zero-sum sense.

Forged?

Did you mean foraged? Forged would mean an imitation of data.

Forged, as in a meticulously recreated work of art, possibly indistinguishable from the original, done for nefarious purposes and passed of as the original.

But foraged isn't bad either.

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