[1]https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-
   32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html

   >Somewhere towards the end of the call, I asked them if it was okay to
   keep the emails. Why not at least ask, right?

   >Funny enough, in the middle of that question, my internet died and
   interrupted the call for the first time in the six months I lived in
   that house. Odd. It came back ten minutes later, and I dialed back into
   the conference line, but the mood of the call pretty much 180’d. They
   told me:

   >1. All files were to be deleted.

   >2. Seattle would hire [2]Kroll to scan my hard drives to prove
   deletion

   >3. Agreeing to #1 and #2 would give me full legal indemnification.

   >This isn't something I'm even remotely cool with, so we ended the call
   a couple minutes later, and agreed to have our lawyers speak going
   forward.

   Sudden DDOS attack after attempt to stall for time?

   I tried writing an email about this before, but my Linux machine
   suddenly froze.

   Tempting to claim that naive implementations of IP stacks should be
   used for home users and authentication servers (with the rest using
   standard implementations). Journalists certainly should use a VPN, NAT
   isn’t a firewall, but it is pretty close.

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References

   1. https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-gave-me-32m-emails-for-40-dollars4997.html
   2. https://www.kroll.com/en-us/default.aspx