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- Shreder1, on 07/20/2009, -0/+11Twitter got hacked?! No way!!!
This has never happened before, ever. - prettyawesome, on 07/20/2009, -0/+11Murky... blog.. waters?
- suprememilo, on 07/20/2009, -1/+11I wonder how much stolen content is posted ON Twitter...
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -1/+8I hate twitter as much as the next guy, it's just facebook status updates minus a useful website. But really, how is this murky? You deal in stolen goods, you are an accessory to the crime. Some in the comments here have insinuated that twitter is built on stolen goods. How so? I've never heard this charge before.
- MonkeyOverlord, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5The same laws that protect Twitter's documents apply to the laws which protect your electronic banking, tax and email records. You better hope that the courts don't rule that once private information is hacked and released that anyone can publish it when the information has no public purpose like exposing violations of the law.
- jambla, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5I hope they take TechCrunch with them.
- gusyehia, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4that will be terrible...
- sodoh, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4That has to be fake. It is more then 140 characters. ;)
- kendetroit, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4They already used the first adopters (tech crowd) to get Oprah and Britney. Now, they don't need you any more. So don't count on a "tech crowd" backlash to scare them into doing anything. lol@first adopters.
- Portside, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3A battle they won't win, and if they think they will, then they deserve everything they get - and what they'll get is the striesand effect.
- memper, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Let's see what's so bad about stealing a bit of Powerpoint info from a corporate network, and some personal emails.
The hacker may have spoofed his location, name, used a botted, or bot network:
Access Device Fraud. 18 U.S.C. 1029
The hacker, um, hacked something:
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. 18 U.S.C.1030
The hacker stole personal communications and private documents:
Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2701
What if the hacker has already sold the rest of the contents to competitors:
Trade Secrets Act. 18 U.S.C. 1832
what if the hacker hated twitter, and simply was trying to hurt them:
Economic Espionage Act. 18 U.S.C. 1831
And that doesn't include state of California specific computer crimes law.
The press that published the contents of the zip file may be in trouble for receiving stolen goods, if they knew the files were stolen. They may be in for defamation. If Twitter had been more ambiguous as to the authenticity of the documents, a position on a defemation suit might have been better. Twitter's reaction of posting a threatening public response is a legal shot to one's own foot.
Because both parties are based in California, TechCrunch may be protected under a 2006 California Supreme Court decision that ruled that websites cannot be sued for content written by third parties. Although that decision was designed to protect sites which merely syndicate content. What TechCrunch did was abhorrent and might cause a modification to the law if Twitter had coffers to fight big press, which they don't. - MrViklund, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Twitter has all the right in the world to sue and I hope they sue Tech Crunch into the ground so that idiot Arington has to shut down the site. What a ***** idiot.
- jjustin01, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Twitter should've implemented DRM to secure those documents so the blogs couldn't share them.
Oh, and ***** the RIAA - spookyttws, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2I'm thinking publicity stunt. They have no case and if they moved forward it would only hurt them badly with the tech crowd (all of us/ their core users). They had some docs stolen, they asked politely for no one to post them (yeah...because that's how journalism works..) and TechCrunch had the balls to actually post the story. Boo hoo! I'll be surprised if all of this doesn't go away in less than a month with some action that makes both Twitter and TechCrunch look good after a few weeks of free advertising.
- fixyourthinking, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1I agree with the comment here:
"I'm thinking publicity stunt. They have no case and if they moved forward it would only hurt them badly with the tech crowd (all of us/ their core users)."
But I'd like to know what trade secrets or confidential information was REALLY revealed here. Most of it seems like it is known, rumored but almost true, or available public records wise. - bmcnally, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Hasn't this already been decided with sites like Wikileak? Maybe it hasn't, since I can't find any case documents, but I do know that they've refused to pull down many documents that have been acquired illegally.
- Backstab, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Isn't it legal to publish leaked docs?
- spazzcat, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1If you get stolen goods from someone else that is also a crime
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0I don't know why I'm getting dugg down.
If you didn't take them, it's NOT illegal. So TechCrunch is in the clear 100%. - RickCarstens, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1twitter hacking shows the evil thoughts that some criminal minds have..... nothing can be in peace until such jerks got busted off!!!
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0*facepalm*
For the last time... duplication of data is not the same as physical theft.
Anyway, they published the documents, and stand just fine: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/14/in-our-inbox- ...
News has been doing this for ages. All the supposed "Yahoo will buy Facebook" leaks... are also "stolen" since they came directly from employees.
So no, not the same. Not a crime. - qwertydvorak, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1it would have been great if, instead of publishing on techcrunch, they would have tweeted the leak... what would twitter's offensive attack have been in that scenario ?
- Yage2006, on 07/20/2009, -2/+1IF twiter knows whats good for them they should just back off and let it go.
- 13373h4X0r, on 07/20/2009, -4/+2Twitter: "L-L-Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"
Hacker: So long, and thanks for all the files!!! LOL! [NO CARRIER.] - cnldelta, on 07/20/2009, -4/+2Facebook status updates/newfeeds were updated to look like twitter feeds. Twitter got the styling right first and then facebook followed.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -5/+0I wonder where these companies get the nerve.
It's not a government document. There's no "Top secret" classification on them that would land someone in hot water.
Once the documents are public, however that happens, they're public. The end. Deal with it.
The responsibility lies on you to make better security, or to have better policy so your "sensitive" documents aren't readily available should someone breach your app.
Retards always passing blame. - fzthps, on 07/20/2009, -6/+0doesn't surprise me one bit, and lol at twitter for being complete hypocrites about stealing information
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