In regards to a previous post http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/2009/07/15/twitter-fail-whale-lands-on-twitter-head-office/ I just wanted to inform you that the twitter client Twitteriffic, failed to use the offered SSL options which resulted in twitter accounts being discovered and projected upon the Wall of Sheep. In the idea of fair journalism, it was not a failure on Twitter’s part per se and I felt obligated to inform you of the issue.

I would more so question the sanity of joining the wireless network at Defcon with an iPhone in the first place

Thanks for sending that in.
cheers,
Dave

“A moral obligation to publish”? Gimmie a fucking break.

Agreed regarding “password”. Did not assert otherwise.

Journalists are often in possession of documents that were obtained by violation of various laws and legal restrictions. Documents regarding Nazi war crimes, internment of Japanese Americans, and various acts of corporate skulduggery come to mind.

A journalist is bound by a code of ethics that requires them to report on information that comes to their attention — regardless of how that information was obtained. For example, the entire Watergate scandal was revealed by “Deep Throat” — who broke various laws to reveal this information — to a reporter. That reporter had an ethical obligation to REPORT that information. The reporter also had an ethical obligation to conceal the source of this information.

The information published by TechCrunch was published under their ethical obligation as a journalist. Without journalists actually doing their jobs, under great duress and pressure, then our ability to have a functioning democracy is under great threat.

TechCrunch has a moral obligation to publish. If they do not publish, they are not journalists, but are corporate lapdogs.

Oh I wasn’t kidding. It was “password” according to the leak article.