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Snapchat CEO lashes out after Sony leaks
The Hill ^ | 12/17/14 | Cory Bennett

Posted on 12/17/2014 5:28:46 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Snapchat CEO lashes out after Sony leaks

By Cory Bennett - 12/17/14 05:25 PM EST

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel said Wednesday that he was “angry” and “devastated” at the information leaked about his disappearing messaging app as a result of the Sony hack.

Good chunks of Snapchat’s business plans were revealed Tuesday when the cyberattackers that hit Sony dumped Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton's email catalogue.

Lynton sits on Snapchat’s board of directors and had numerous candid email exchanges with Spiegel about hiring practices, possible acquisitions and potential future products.

“I felt like I was going to cry all morning,” said Spiegel in a letter sent to Snapchat staff that he later shared on Twitter. Spiegel defended his company’s right to keeping its blueprint private.

“We keep secrets because we get to do our work free from judgement — until we’re ready to share it,” he wrote. “We keep secrets because keeping secrets gives you space to change your mind until you’re really sure you’re right.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: china; clooney; evanspiegel; hacking; hollywood; michaellynton; nkorea; northkorea; pyongyang; snapchat; sony; sonypictures; theinterview; twitter
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1 posted on 12/17/2014 5:28:46 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Never send information in an email you don’t want others to see. Never.


2 posted on 12/17/2014 5:31:09 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why can’t something like this happen to every agency/entity and branch of the Federal Leviathan? That would be truly spectacular! LOL


3 posted on 12/17/2014 5:32:06 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This has become too hot to drop. Prediction: Somebody IS going to release that film online before this month is over. They will find many, many people wanting a copy of this C minus film for symbolic reasons only. Whoever captures, copies and releases the film will be bringing in some good money. At least for a while.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 5:32:46 PM PST by lee martell
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Live by the bit, die by the bit.....


5 posted on 12/17/2014 5:40:32 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

die bit by bit?


6 posted on 12/17/2014 5:56:20 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: CatOwner

Nope! A few years ago my company got in a business deal with a dishonest company put together with their CEO who an immigrant from Nigeria. As we were finding how how they were screwing us, I sent an email to a business partner that said “why did we do business with that damn Nigerian??”

When we went to court, that email was brought up.


7 posted on 12/17/2014 5:58:45 PM PST by MNDude
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To: CatOwner

Hilarious! This guy has got to come up with some lame quasi-theory about why corporate secrets are OK, when everyone with have a brain in his head knows that corporate secrets are often a necessity.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 5:59:50 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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...count me among those who only have “have” a brain in my head.


9 posted on 12/17/2014 6:00:25 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: TigerLikesRooster
“I felt like I was going to cry all morning,”

Anyone who knows me has permission to put a bullet in my noggin if I ever write something like that.

10 posted on 12/17/2014 6:04:06 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: CatOwner
Never send information in an email you don’t want others to see. Never.

Of course.

Never send it in a letter either, because once the recipient opens it..................

11 posted on 12/17/2014 6:04:31 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: CatOwner
Never touch the crosses. Never.


12 posted on 12/17/2014 6:05:12 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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Why not? I dont’ get it.

What’s that from? :/


13 posted on 12/17/2014 6:12:26 PM PST by gaijin
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To: MNDude

I hope that’s not the same Nigerian who promised to put $3 million in my account next week!


14 posted on 12/17/2014 6:25:31 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

““I felt like I was going to cry all morning,” said Spiegel in a letter sent to Snapchat staff that he later shared on Twitter. Spiegel defended his company’s right to keeping its blueprint private. “

It must be a real bit$h to be treated as one of the little people


15 posted on 12/17/2014 6:28:26 PM PST by DanZ
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To: UCANSEE2
Never cross the streams. Never.


16 posted on 12/17/2014 6:29:24 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
“I felt like I was going to cry all morning,”

What has happened to the world's men?

17 posted on 12/17/2014 6:30:01 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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“What has happened to the world’s men? “

Those are not men, those are METROSEXUALS - you know Obama people


18 posted on 12/17/2014 6:56:06 PM PST by DanZ
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To: TigerLikesRooster
OK everyone repeat after me.

The internet is not now secure nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be so.

If you don't want it known do not put it on a device that in anyway connects to the internet.

19 posted on 12/17/2014 6:59:29 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

What a waste of design skills. They could be building truly useful hardware instead.


20 posted on 12/17/2014 8:43:37 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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