Songbird
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Seemingly complicated case that really isn't. I don't buy his defense.
Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor for Thomson Reuters, was suspended this week with pay after the feds charged him with helping the Anonymous hackers gain access into his former employer's CMS -- which led to a headline change and defacing at latimes.com. And this was after they say he had deleted thousands of Fox 40's Facebook and Twitter followers.
Lawyers say he was acting as a undercover journalist who went into "the dark corners of the Internet" to expose Anonymous. DOJ calls bullshirt on that defense.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/matthew-keys-undercover_n_2885696.html
I was in a similar situation last year. Long story short, I gave them back the passwords.
Funny thing is, I got a frantic call months later on an early Sunday morning from the new Editor. I think it's when the Eagles fired Reid. The paper had nothing on its website and hadn't sent out a text alert. The regional publisher was pissed off and demanded a text alert at once! I was the only one who knew how to sent text alerts so I scrambled to remember my log-in and password and got it to him within 15 minutes. It had nothing to do with wanting to help the company that fired me. I just wanted to help an ex-teammate who was under the gun.
Edit: It wasn't Reid's firing. Maybe someone important died. Whatever it was broke in the morning.
Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor for Thomson Reuters, was suspended this week with pay after the feds charged him with helping the Anonymous hackers gain access into his former employer's CMS -- which led to a headline change and defacing at latimes.com. And this was after they say he had deleted thousands of Fox 40's Facebook and Twitter followers.
Lawyers say he was acting as a undercover journalist who went into "the dark corners of the Internet" to expose Anonymous. DOJ calls bullshirt on that defense.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/matthew-keys-undercover_n_2885696.html
I was in a similar situation last year. Long story short, I gave them back the passwords.
Funny thing is, I got a frantic call months later on an early Sunday morning from the new Editor. I think it's when the Eagles fired Reid. The paper had nothing on its website and hadn't sent out a text alert. The regional publisher was pissed off and demanded a text alert at once! I was the only one who knew how to sent text alerts so I scrambled to remember my log-in and password and got it to him within 15 minutes. It had nothing to do with wanting to help the company that fired me. I just wanted to help an ex-teammate who was under the gun.
Edit: It wasn't Reid's firing. Maybe someone important died. Whatever it was broke in the morning.
