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“Public record” is not equivalent to “in the tech press”. If there was a central registery of IT operational errors, where data was carefully reported by all pu
by floatingatoll 8y ago
“Public record” is not equivalent to “in the tech press”. If there was a central registery of IT operational errors, where data was carefully reported by all public and private companies, then your stance would be absolutely understandable. But in today’s press climate, the focus would be on dragging their name through the mud for clickbait, rather than on interviewing them about their plans to improve going forward and evaluating _those_ claims for technical and business veracity.
ps. Happily, I haven’t a clue who they are, not have I tried to look.
- briandear 8y agoIf a car exploded, should we withhold the name of the car company?
- staktrace 8y agoIf an article was posted by $random_internet_person about a car that exploded with "some details changed", where necessary context is missing (e.g. what the car company did in the aftermath to ensure it doesn't happen again), then yes, we should withhold the name of the company until a fuller picture is available. It's not ethical to go about blaming and shaming unless you know for a fact what happened and the context surrounding the incident. And unless you're Rachel, you don't.