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TechCrunch to curate exhibit of loot from Twitter heist
GMSV —
... calendars and phone logs of various Twitter employees.” After hours of study, deliberation and legal consultations, he and his staffers set aside those items deemed personally invasive or embarrassing and anything that would pose a security risk, but decided to go ahead and publish “some of the documents showing financial projections, product plans and notes from executive strategy meetings.” Uproar ensued, and through the din could be heard words like “theft” and “ethics.” Here’s how Arrington responded : “Many users say this is ’stolen’ information and therefore shouldn’t ...
Twitter Break-in Exposes the Major Flaws in Cloud Computing. We are simply not ready yet.
The Next Web —
... there had been a targeted attack on Twitter and was aware of the various media that had been posted. I don’t particular want to regurgitate all the news , TechCrunch has it well covered and discusses the various documents they are considering publishing here. ...
Confidential Twitter Docs Fly Into Inboxes
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... is stuff someone doesn’t want you to write. The rest is advertising.
Chime in Pilgrims. What line is good to cross and what lines are better left alone? Is this just a way to get people to TechCrunch since nothing has really been revealed yet? Since it appears that TC is not the only outlet to get these docs should it just be a gold rush to get it out first and claim the notoriety? Lastly, how would it look now if he didn’t publish the goods?
UPDATE: TechCrunch Responds to the Response
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What's Now: Ballmer on Chrome, Google in Labs, and a Twitter novel
Betanews —
... that turned out to be corporate and personal documents from Twitter and various of its staffers. Arrington's original announcement of the "gift" triggered a lively discussion of the ethics of publishing such material, or even using it as guidance for future stories. Arrington has a habit of finding himself in these conversations about disclosure. ...
What's Now: Ballmer on Chrome, Google in Labs, and a full-length Twitter novel
Betanews —
... that turned out to be corporate and personal documents from Twitter and various of its staffers. Arrington's original announcement of the "gift" triggered a lively discussion of the ethics of publishing such material, or even using it as guidance for future stories. Arrington has a habit of finding himself in these conversations about disclosure. ...
Ask Twitter about document security in the cloud
TechBlog —
... , that white-hot microblogging service that's growing like crazy, living off millions of dollars in venture capital funding while it works on developing a business model. twitter_logo Like a lot of techies, the folks who run Twitter apparently believe that working on the Web is the way to go. Using services such as Google Docs , for example, lets you store your documents on third-party servers, which makes collaboration and sharing very easy. If someone you're working with needs access to information, just put it up there in the cloud, right? The problem is that, because ...
Private Twitter Documents To Be Revealed
WebProNews Feed —
... someone doesn’t want you to write. The rest is advertising.
Chime in Pilgrims. What line is good to cross and what lines are better left alone? Is this just a way to get people to TechCrunch since nothing has really been revealed yet? Since it appears that TC is not the only outlet to get these docs should it just be a gold rush to get it out first and claim the notoriety? Lastly, how would it look now if he didn’t publish the goods?
UPDATE: TechCrunch Responds to the Response
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Twittergate
Internet Evolution: —
I don't get out nearly enough these days. That includes to TechCrunch. But this AM, I found my way there and learned about what I think can only now be appropriately termed "Twittergate." Leaked confidential documents. Virtual break-ins. Quick, somebody call Bob Woodward. We need him to take a secret meeting at an Internet and gaming cafe to meet with "Deep Tweet!" To catch you up, TechCrunch was sent a whole bunch of confidential Twitter documents: executive meeting notes, partner agreements, financial projections, calendars and phone logs, notes from high-level ...
Many Unknowns In Twitter Document Breach [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... personal nature, were delivered to TechCrunch yesterday by an unknown person, who also threatened to release them publicly. At least 310 separate items were obtained, including important strategic documents like “executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial projections” as well as more mundane items such as the “meal preferences” of various Twitter employees. Putting aside the question of whether or not the documents should be made public, there is a lot we don’t know about how the data was obtained. ...
Twitter hacked—secrets to be revealed?
Macworld —
... would not link to TC stories about the Twitter hack for legal reasons. An online poll regarding the fate of the Twitter documents is also taking the temperature of Internet users. At the time of this writing, 55 percent of the 480 respondents were against TC releasing the documents, while 33 percent were opposed, and 13 percent didn't care. Many tech blog readers are also opposed to TC's decision. Readers said it was unfair for TC to publish the documents because they were unjustly " stolen " from Twitter, and therefore the data is out of bounds for publication. To defend TC's ...
Never Trust ‘The Cloud’?
Screenwerk —
... First the Twitter docs controversy: A hacker sent hundreds of allegedly authentic internal Twitter docs to TechCrunch. There was much sensitive information in there. Some of it TechCrunch is going to expose, some of it the site has chosen not to. ...
TechCrunch Ethics And The Twitter Leaks
SiliconBeat » O’Brien —
... sent by someone who had hacked into the company’s system. Arrington said he planned to post some documents related to Twitter’s business. This set off a firestorm of debate about the ethics. With Arrington posting a follow up to his original post here. ...
The Twitter hack: Let's not start blaming Google or the cloud
Between the Lines —
... on this subject, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington writes: the original security hole seems to be Google, via Google Apps for your Domain. Some passwords were guessed and things started to fall apart from there. Most (or all) of these documents were downloaded from Google’s servers. Then, in a subsequent post , where he tries to justify why he is considering posting some of the documents, he writes: It’s not our fault that Google has a ridiculously easy way to get access to accounts via their password recovery question. It’s not our fault that Twitter stored all of these ...
The Twitter Debacle: All Google's Fault?
I4U News —
... a hacker got access to a Twitter employee's Google Apps account. From there he was able to dredge up a whole slew of emails, Google documents, spreadsheets, meeting notes and other information. Today that hacker sent all of the info over to TechCrunch . Michael Arrington posted that they would be filtering out all personal documents, but that they would post the rest. As you can imagine, this created a bit of a stir. A lot of people criticized Mr. Arrington's decision to publish any of the documents at all. Personally, I don't see what the fuss is about. Journalists receive ...
Alleged Hacking Of Twitter's Gmail Raises Questions For The Cloud
The Channel Wire —
While much of the tech blogosphere was embroiled Wednesday in a debate over the ethics of publishing internal documents allegedly stolen from Twitter by a malicious French hacker, others were concerned with how a cybercriminal was able to access a tech-savvy company's private, cloud-based information with such ease in the first place. Twitter, based in San Francisco, has reportedly confirmed that a cybercriminal going by "Hacker Croll" accessed the Gmail accounts of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' wife and a Twitter administrative ...
Alleged Hacking Of Twitter's Gmail Raises Questions For The Cloud
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
While much of the tech blogosphere was embroiled Wednesday in a debate over the ethics of publishing internal documents allegedly stolen from Twitter by a malicious French hacker, others were concerned with how a cybercriminal was able to access a tech-savvy company's private, cloud-based information with such ease in the first place. Twitter, based in San Francisco, has reportedly confirmed that a cybercriminal going by "Hacker Croll" accessed the Gmail accounts of Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' wife and a Twitter administrative ...
Ethical implications of the leaked Twitter documents
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... An overwhelming number of readers blasted Arrington for exposing classified papers from the Internet darling, calling the leaks "a violation of privacy," "a bad move," "disappointing" and illegal. The immediate reactions incited a quick response from Arrington, who defended the ethics of his decision. ...
Twitter's internal documents: stolen, boring
Download Squad —
... Most of the arguments against revealing this information have been made on ethical grounds, resulting in TechCrunch's Mike Arrington responding with a lecture about the history of news, and citing cases where published info has been obtained in similarly shady ways. ...
Twitter Hacked - Oh No Mister Bill!
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... But there is one thing about this stolen information that is of concern. This information was stored in a cloud environment which illustrates how insecure the cloud can be. I am of the opinion that I would not store any sensitive information on the cloud. But that is just me.
What do you think? Should this stuff be published or not? What about cloud security? Should we be concerned?
Comments welcome.
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The Debate Over Publishing Stolen Twitter Documents
Bits —
... that it would publish some of the material, the blog received hundreds of comments, many from readers who thought TechCrunch should keep the material private. But Mr. Arrington pointed out in a subsequent post that much of what his blog and many other publications publish is confidential material. “If you disagree with that, ok,” he wrote. “But then you also have to disagree with the entire history of the news industry. ‘News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising,’ is something ...
Bits: The Debate Over Publishing Stolen Twitter Documents
NYT > Technology —
... that it would publish some of the material, the blog received hundreds of comments, many from readers who thought TechCrunch should keep the material private. But Mr. Arrington pointed out in a subsequent post that much of what his blog and many other publications publish is confidential material. “If you disagree with that, ok,” he wrote. “But then you also have to disagree with the entire history of the news industry. ‘News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising,’ is something ...
TechCrunch to Twitter: we’ve got the stolen goods, what should we do with them?
901am —
... and got a lot of mileage out of what are essentially fairly boring internal memos, but it once again raises an interesting question on what’s fair game to publish. ...
Slouching Toward a Coddled and Toothless Blogosphere
Gawker: valleywag —
... This episode's Woodstein was as distraught as anyone to see their dear friends at Twitter burned. TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington wrote: "I wish this had never happened." ...
Slouching Toward a Coddled and Toothless Blogosphere
Valleywag —
... This episode's Woodstein was as distraught as anyone to see their dear friends at Twitter burned. TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington wrote: "I wish this had never happened." ...
