On Gawker's security breach

[AngryAmish]

<http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/12/13/the-lessons-of-gawkers-security-mess/>

"Gossip site Gawker has experienced a large data breach whose scale fully came to light Sunday. The group that calls itself Gnosis claimed and provided evidence of responsibility, motivated in their words by Gawker’s arrogance in its previous dealings with members of the Internet board 4chan."

THis was not the simple swiping of passwords and emails of their customers. Whoever did this stole everything. Emails and passwords of commentators(and how many people use the same passwords for everything? Banking and being a jalopnik commentator?) Source code for the website and a redesign. Other things I am too stupid to figure out the meaning of.

At it's core Gawker is a media site. They are expected to maintain the confidentiality of their sources. It appears they cannot do this. Remember the Iphone 3? Gawker broke that story. Many other stories they have nroken over the years. Somewhere in this data is identifying information on all confidential informants.

Yeah, remind me not to piss off those folks they pissed off.