"We've spent twenty years building a security industry on the assumption that certain knowledge is hard to get. This proves it wasn't hard — it was just hoarded. And hoarding only works until someone decides to stop."
The judge, after a slow, public reckoning, did something neither side expected. He did not acquit Mara outright, nor did he allow the custodians to crush all extrajudicial interventions. He issued a narrow ruling: when a record so decisively harms a person’s present life that no administrative remedy exists, a limited, supervised uncopylock might be permissible—if mediated by a new office of "Remedial Registry," staffed publicly and transparently, with appeal rights and oversight. The city called it, eventually, a policy of “restorative correction.”