let's be clear here, though: the root problem isn't someone finding some sensitive papers left on a printer accidentally, it's the person who left them on the printer to begin with. that's the root failure, and damage that results from that root failure is the fault of the person who left them there.

the american system clearly agrees with this, too. you see it insider trading laws. you're allow to trade on insider information as long as it was, for example, overheard at a cafe when some careless blabbermouth was talking about the wrongs things in public.