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Someone Sends You Stolen Confidential Documents. Would You Publish Them?

ethics A story that has had the tech world abuzz involves a story on TechCrunch.  In that story, TechCrunch head honcho Mike Arrington wrote that a hacker had forwarded him a zip file containing over 300 confidential corporate and personal documents stolen from Twitter and Twitter employees.  Evidently, the hacker did this by hacking email accounts.  Arrington wrote that the zip file “contained 310 documents, ranging from executive meeting notes, partner agreements and financial projections to the meal preferences, calendars and phone logs of various Twitter employees.”

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Google Chrome Operating System – Able to Promise Big Because it Delivers Small?

chrome On Tuesday night, Google announced its new Chrome operating system, with the code due for release later this year, and netbooks that run it due in the second half of 2010.  Some of the announcement is sure to be marketing speak, as Google’s announcement seems to promise the world.  Or does it?  Is Google able to promise what it does, because the OS itself is actually going to deliver very little?

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Are Tech Geeks on the Cutting Edge, or Out of Touch?

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This past weekend I was in a remote area of northeastern Pennsylvania with no internet access, even via my iPhone.  I made one trip per day to my parents’ cabin a few miles away, where I could plug in and briefly get online. I was among a large number of extended family members, and as best I could tell, I was the only one who seemed to mind not having access.  Everyone else’s nonchalance got me to thinking – are tech geeks really on the cutting edge, and leading the way to the future? Or are we far removed from the reality of the rest of the world, and just scratching our tech itch for our own benefit?

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