Silicon Valley Smackdown Over Twitter Leak and Its Handling
By now, pretty much everyone who cares about the startup Twitter knows that a French hacker managed to access both some of the company’s confidential and personal documents last month. We know because on Tuesday night, the individual, a Frenchman who uses the handle “Hacker Croll,” sent several hundred confidential Twitter documents and screenshots to TechCrunch, after French blogger Manuel Dorne, who claims he received the documents first, decided not to post anything other than a few screenshots. "I don't want to cause damage to Twitter or to help their rivals,” Dorne told the BBC yesterday.
16 July 2009•3 mins read
