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May 9, 2018 12:10 am PDT
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Nova Scotia abandons its attempt to destroy a teenager who stumbled on a wide-open directory of sensitive information
Last month, an unnamed 19-year-old Nova Scotian grew frustrated with the lack of a search interface for the province's public repository of responses to public records requests; he wanted to research the province's dispute with its public school teachers and didn't fancy manually clicking on thousands of links to documents to find the relevant ones, so he wrote a single line of code that downloaded all the public documents to his computer, from which he could search them with ease. (more…)
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