By John Leyden for The Register.
This article has been reproduced with permission.
So AOL has done the PR-savvy thing and 'fessed up to making an
error of judgement in releasing the logs. The data was pulled last
weekend, although not before various mirror sites got their mitts
on it.
"This was a screw-up, and we're angry and upset about it," AOL
spokesman Andrew Weinstein said, AP reports. "It was an innocent
enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new
research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and
if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant."
More background can be found in our analysis here.
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