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Atrocious Ethics Galore in the "Lost iPhone" Case

Atrocious Ethics Galore in the "Lost iPhone" Case

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000711.html

Right now the Net is all abuzz about the police raid on the Gizmodo
editor's home. I'll let law enforcement, lawyers, and perhaps the
courts figure that one out. But I'm also seeing a new meme being
established calling Apple a "thug" in relation to that raid, as if the
officers involved were members of a private Apple security force.

As regular readers know, I'm no Apple fanboy. And I'm already on
record as recommending that Apple not seriously punish the engineer
who lost the iPhone, nor pursue civil litigation in this case.

But the new attempts to shift blame to Apple are disingenuous, and the
associated ethical abominations committed by both the iPhone
"finder/seller," and by Gizmodo as the iPhone
"buyer/disassembler/publicizer," are cast in stone regardless of
whether or not criminal and/or civil charges are ever filed in this
matter, and irrespective of whether or not the police raid was
actually appropriate.