In Their Inbox: Hundreds Of Confidential Twitter Documents
source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-of-confidential-twitter-documents/
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"There is clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren’t going to be published, at least by us. But a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it’s appropriate to publish them."
Read the article here and let me know what you'd do in their position: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox-hundreds-of-confidential-twitt...
I'm torn. I guess some of it IS extremely newsworthy, but it also feels slimy to be reading private information obtained this way.
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I've been reading about this all day, and really thinking about the ins and outs to the whole situation. I don't think TechCrunch should even be considering posting any information obtained from these documents. Doing so would simply give the hacker the attention he was obviously looking for.
When a "hacker" (read: scriptkiddie) does something like this, its only done to develop a reputation online among other wanna be hackers. All they are doing, in reality, is running some program they found online by searching Google, and flaunting the results they achieved by clicking the "go" button.
He could've done a great thing for the world by coming out and saying 'hey, I found a way in. Google take note and fix your hole, and Twitter, be smarter about where you store your documents.' This is what separates the white hat hackers from the black. Its a level of respect for other people, and an admission of some sort of humility. You still get your name out, and you also get praise, and in all likelihood, a job with one of the aforementioned companies.
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