This is extremely jacked up. City of Columbus suing security researcher for "sharing stolen data".
The data was already leaked, and completely contradicted what Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther that the information was encrypted and unusable which was false and proven by the researcher.
Clearly an example of where the City of Columbus is targeting a researcher to silence the completely fabricated responses from the Mayor.
The complaint: "Only individuals willing to navigate and interact with the criminal element on the dark web, who also have the computer expertise and tools necessary to download data from the dark web, would be able to do so."
Totally bogus, the dark web isn't this magical/mythical creature - and is easy to access. So anyone that downloads information from the dark web is subject to lawsuits?
The statement reads "In a press conference about the lawsuit, shown below, City Attorney Zach Klein says that the lawsuit is not about suppressing free speech, as Goodwolf can still talk about the leak, but is aimed at preventing him from downloading and disseminating the stolen information."
Hate to tell you this, but when its published online, regardless of on the "dark web" or on public websites - it's gone, your data is already public. It's already being disseminated and it is already stolen. The researcher had/has nothing to do with that.
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