Why So Much Hand-Wringing Over TechCrunch's Decision to Publish 'Hacked' Twitter Documents? - Techcrunch - Gawker. It seems to me that from a legal perspective Techcrunch's decision to publish Twitter's confidential documents is, as the link suggests, just good 'ole fashion journalism and nothing more.
Perhaps this little known case referred to as The Pentagon Papers is on point? You think?
