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Chill, it's not WikiLeaks 2: Pile of EU diplomatic cables nicked by hackers

Ashentaine

Yep, that's why data slurping in general operates on quantity over quality. Despite Hollywood's depictions of a hacker being able to knife their way through a system and get right to "IllegalMilitaryOperations.txt", it's much more efficient to just take everything at once and filter out (and then sell) what you don't need later.

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