Vtech toy data-breach gets worse: 6.3 million children implicated

doctorow · December 2, 2015, 6:25am

fiatrn · December 2, 2015, 9:47am

Did the 6.3 million kids perform the data breach?

I think implicated may be the wrong word.

I do not think it means what you think it means.

miasm · December 2, 2015, 10:08am

implicate

[im-pli-keyt]

verb (used with object), implicated, implicating.

to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
to imply as a necessary circumstance, or as something to be inferred or understood.
to connect or relate to intimately; affect as a consequence: The malfunctioning of one part of the nervous system implicates another part.
Archaic. to fold or twist together; intertwine; interlace.

doctorow · December 7, 2015, 6:25am

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