Twitter Hacker Breaks Law and Blogs Just Abet

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I’m absolutely not a legal scholar but once again I am struck by a certain weird lack of ethics especially among a number of major blogs including Mashable, Download Squad and scores of others.
In short, somebody hacked into a number of Twitter-owned accounts and made off with a zip file containing everything from internal emails to floor plans. While nothing so far looks terribly damning it is strange that so many bloggers seem to have no qualms republishing the stolen documents.
In court, if evidence is acquired in an illegal manner it is no longer able to admitted as evidence. Now, there was no question that the screencaps being published were stolen and there was really no way, until confirmed by Ev Williams at Twitter, that the documents were even legit.
Any way you cut it, there is something clearly unsavory and unethical about published stolen documents. It might not be illegal but it doesn’t feel right.
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