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Thank you for the reference - I agree, that's the most likely interpretation of the email. I wonder why this wasn't called out more strongly when the hedge fund was mentioned in the press release.

The only reference I found to their hedge fund said that it hasn't launched yet, not that it has failed.

You misunderstand. Your email _address_ (and mine) have already been leaked, shortly before Christmas 2011. What WikiLeaks is now publishing is a list of actual internal emails, as in, the content of their internal, private communication. Unless you were a source for them, or a buyer of their more confidential information, you won't be directly affected by this leak.

That's still not like sending a letter without an envelope.

And he's saying that this change is for the worse. He has made substantive arguments, and you have responded with a useless platitude.

This bit is inaccurate, as far as I can tell:

> it was also transmitting the data in “plain text.” This would be like mailing a private letter to someone without the envelope.

My understanding is that the data was transmitted over https, which is decidedly not like mailing a letter with no envelope.

There are no straw man arguments in this entire thread, let alone the comment you replied to.

I haven't read a whole lot on this - could you clarify on the ripping off of IP?

edit: I should have read the whole comment thread first - nevermind.

I dispute that the law "requires" prosecution.

It's still not a slippery slope. It's an analogy that illustrates what would be possible, de jure. Honestly, there's no slope involved at all.

I see no slippery slope in his argument. Singing Happy Birthday in public is actually a copyright violation, right now.

This is just a friendly suggestion to edit that second sentence - it threw me for a bit.

This sounds more like the original iTerm than the newer iTerm2 to me. They're separate projects.

Thanks for the info!

Strawman. A congressperson ought to either be an expert in those things, or listen to those that are.