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15th July 2009

Link reblogged from rickwebb's tumblrmajig with 40 notes

TechCrunch plans to release illegally obtained documents about Twitter →

Eh, he’s still a douchebag who should have stayed in hiding.

rickwebb:

nickdouglas:

So some guy calling himself “Hacker Croll” stole hundreds of confidential documents from the Twitter founders, and he sent copies to TechCrunch. That blog’s founder, Mike Arrington, says the documents include people who interviewed at Twitter, floorplans, and security passcodes.

So of course once Mike (a former lawyer) saw this was some heavy illegally-gotten shit, he stopped reading, right?

Nope! He and his team read the docs all night. And MIKE PLANS TO PUBLISH SOME OF THEM.

I’ve never liked TechCrunch, but before now it was mostly personal preference or distaste. Now it’s major. IF YOU EVER, EVER, EVER READ OR LINK TO TECHCRUNCH, YOU ARE NOW SUPPORTING A SITE THAT UTTERLY DISRESPECTS ALL PRIVACY AND RULE OF LAW. THEY ARE SCUM.

Oh come on. This is the a ridiculous tempest in a teapot. If anyone believes this is rare, unique, or even remotely unorthodox, you may as well stop reading the news. How do you think we learned about yellowcake, or the pentagon papers, or that Apple is planning a tablet PC? Someone, somewhere, broke a law to learn these things or leak these things. This is how news WORKS. Do you think Steve Jobs like forgot to get a factory to sign an NDA or just called up the China Times and said “hey we’re gonna build a tablet PC. Don’t tell anyone I told you?” Do you think that however the WaPo learned about Cheney’s plans for an assassin squad was LEGAL? The shit was TOP SECRET. Someone broke the law to tell them. The only difference here is that Arrington is being on the up and up of where he got the info, and letting us judge the motivations of the hacker as well. And to call them illegally-obtained documents is disingenuous. Arrington didn’t break any laws. They landed in his inbox.

  1. continuum reblogged this from benw and added:
    every syllable of...bi-monthly essays playing a victim in ridiculous
  2. kurafire reblogged this from timoni and added:
    Rick, you couldn’t be more wrong. Learning about some secret product a highly-secretive company like Apple is working on...
  3. benw reblogged this from timoni and added:
    —Timoni I disagree...the suggestion that TechCrunch...open”....
  4. karlis reblogged this from nickdouglas
  5. timoni reblogged this from lauraglu and added:
    Agree with rickwebb & lauraglu, although for my money, Techcrunch...it’s laudable they’ve...
  6. rickwebb reblogged this from nickdouglas
  7. steampoweredmedia reblogged this from lauraglu and added:
    It seems like he’d get suspicious when people didn’t spit in his face. Then again, who knows what’s going to come from...
  8. nickdouglas reblogged this from lauraglu and added:
    GluFactory reacts...Rick Webb’s reaction...“Here’s your...
  9. notdickless reblogged this from rickwebb and added:
    Eh, he’s still a douchebag who should have stayed in hiding. rickwebb:
  10. lauraglu reblogged this from rickwebb and added:
    That said, Mike no longer gets to question why people spit in his face.
  11. rickwebb reblogged this from nickdouglas and added:
    Oh come on. This is...a ridiculous tempest in a teapot. If anyone believes this is rare,...
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  15. kryz reblogged this from nickdouglas and added:
    Michael Arrington is basically...tech gossip, sans MS Paint skills.
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