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Techcrunch and the hacked confidential Twitter documents

July 15th, 2009 · Comments

There’s a big reaction to Techcrunch at the moment, after they publicly stated they had received confidential Twitter documents sent to them by a hacker who had got access to Twitter bosses email accounts.
The arguments by Mike Arrington are that the information will appear anyway, that the unethical behaviour was by the hacker and not [...]

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Techcrunch and Microsoft: Two WTF? moments…

June 15th, 2009 · Comments

Two items appearing in my Google Reader subscriptions almost led to me exclaiming WTF? on a crowded Monday morning commuter train. (Post now updated due to more info – see below)
First up was the strange experience of seeing Michael Arrington and Techcrunch complain about someone posting a video of the Crunchpad which ‘was not a [...]

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