[Cryptography] looking for a word

[Sidney Markowitz]

Peter Fairbrother wrote on 7/01/20 3:08 pm:
> "Stolen" is too laced with implications of the stolen object not being
> there any more, "copied" does not imply the theft aspect enough,
> "pirated" is too silly.

"Copy" is the correct word. It is the context of the copying that makes it 
part of a breach of confidentiality. When someone eavesdrops, wiretaps, breaks 
in to files, spies, engages in espionage, hacks in to a protected system, 
breaks in, cons, or whatever is the suitable phrasing to describe what they 
are doing and copies confidential material, "copy" is the right word and the 
context provides the right connotations. "Pat copied the files" sounds 
innocent. "The spy copied the files" does not.