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As you may know TechCrunch has been releasing stolen property from Twitter. They supposedly don’t actually know the person who hacked Twitter’s servers and stole many extremely confidential files. And FYI, I’m not putting links to any of their sources as I don’t want to give them any click through traffic from here.
If what they say is actually true and they got the files from some “hacker”, if they were even the slightest bit ethical, moral, and not evil, they would give law enforcement all the info they could about the hacker. They would not release the documents and wouldn’t even have read them now matter how much of a boner it gives Michael Arrington. I know Michael Arrington gets off to this sort of shit, but I really don’t think Mikey would want me hacking his computer and releasing his fucking financial files.
Twitter is nearly a completely ad free service. You barely have to give Twitter any information about you and they are good developers. They all mean good and I haven’t heard anyone having “moral” issues with them. Why would TechCrunch and Michael Arrington release documents about a company like this? Why don’t they put effort into getting files from companies doing evil behind closed doors?
Finally, TechCrunch, or Michael Arrington to be exact, had the nerve to say “it’s news”? If I wanted to read the latest “gossip” I’d grab myself a Cosmo or watch some E!. They’re the ones with “news” from “hackers” and “spies”. They are the ones that release information about hackers getting Paris Hilton’s text messages and emails. I used to go to TechCrunch for their real news from valid sources. I’ve been following them on their Google Wave news because they seemed to be the most knowledgeable about it, not because they stole documents from Google’s HQ.
Also, no matter what they say, it is stolen property and they are in America. If you are in possession of stolen property you are charged as if you stole it. I wish they would have gotten sued for even opening those files.
P.S. If someone ever hacks TechCrunch, give me the documents, I want to post it here. If it’s any other company don’t bother I’ll delete ‘em.
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I disagree that it’s unethical to post this information online. Yes, they got the information from a perceived illegal source, and yes, Twitter is unhappy about it, but they didn’t post anything that could seriously hurt twitter in any shape or form.
I think this is possibly something that’s been carefully orchestrated by TC and the Twitter PR team. I think the documents got there exactly how the article says, but I think that TC and Twitter did a lot of talking before publishing the story.
Personally, I think this sort of thing only helps a company- exposing a number of possible corporate plans “without” consent allows the company to judge the reaction of each of these plans without having to disclose them themselves.
@TechWraith
The post was actually nearly double the size, and I said something like that, but I didn’t want to post any propaganda. I think this was like you said, a move between both of them. If it were, I would have just the same lack of respect for lying about how it was stolen and all this bull shit about how confidential it is/was. I still refuse to return to their site.
I still believe this is unethical because, if they say is what happened, they took documents that are completely stolen. To me, if you download something of mine that is on my hard drive, whether it hurt me or not, and publish to god know hows many people, it’s wrong. The fact you are on my hard drive scanning for stuff is unethical. And if you weren’t the one who broke into my computer but, let’s say you sent it to Jeff, and he pursued it, that’s unethical whether he posted it on the net or not.
Just like reading your little sister’s diary that had a lock on it. You rip it off read it and laugh, which they said it had embarrassing stuff to some of Twitter’s staff members, and you then go and tell your friends what it said, but maybe just not all of it.
And don’t even get me started on if it happened to be a marketing scheme… I think my blog will catch on fire haha.
This is not the first time TechCrunch has gotten my attention in a negative way. Back in March they were spewing propaganda about Twitter selling out.
Even the most successful can suffer from writer’s block, and when there is a deadline sometimes you only have one option left: “blahblahblah.”
That’s right! All you can do is look back to your years in school and start regurgitating faesis and utter bullshit in the hopes of forging on.
So keep forging away TechCruch! One day you might not fuck up.