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>15 officers raided the family home last Wednesday morning
>The teen has been charged with "unauthorized use of a computer," which carries a possible 10-year prison sentence, for downloading approximately 7,000 freedom-of-information releases
>The provincial government says about 250 of those contain Nova Scotians' sensitive personal information.
>On Friday, the premier accused the teenager of "stealing" the information
>But in an interview with CBC News, the 19-year-old says he thought he was downloading an archive of public information that was supposed to be freely available on the internet
>"The website had a number at the end, and I was able to change the last digit of the number to a different number and was able to see a certificate for someone else's animal that they adopted," he said
>"I decided these are all transparency documents that the government is displaying. I decided to download all of them just to save,"
>it took a single line of code and a few hours of computer time to copy 7,000 freedom-of-information requests
>"I didn't do anything to try to hide myself. I didn't think any of this would be wrong if it's all public information. Since it was public, I thought it was free to just download, to save,"
>It wasn't the first website the 19-year-old had saved for general interest
>he has around 30 terabytes of online data on hard drives in his home, the equivalent of "millions" of web pages
>He usually copies online forums such as Jow Forums and Reddit, where posts are either quickly erased or can become difficult to locate.
>"I preserve things, I archive the internet. I have history on my computer, and all of that should be saved and preserved,"
>The teenager says since he was downloading public records off a public website, it all feels unfair.
>"I just had no malicious intent and I shouldn't be charged for this," he said
Well Jow Forums, did this kid do anything wrong? It says he browses Jow Forums, so he's breaking global rule #2.