MG loves calling bullshit on people, but someone needs to call bullshit on him this time. If this were Android instead of iOS, MG would be condemning Google fo

MG loves calling bullshit on people, but someone needs to call bullshit on him this time. If this were Android instead of iOS, MG would be condemning Google for exposing the API. And if this were some obscure startup he didn't have a stake in, he'd be lambasting them for being irresponsible and calling for an app store ban. I would expect nothing less from him. Clearly there's a conflict of interest here since MG is an investor in Path. Either way, his defense of Path's behavior is itself completely asinine; so much so that I'm surprise he was able to physically type the words. They needed the data to "ease the connection building process." Bullshit. The whole point of Path is that it's the anti-Facebook. That is, you only share your Path with intimately close friends and family. If I can’t pick them out of my address book myself, I've got problems a social app can’t solve. And, by the way, how the hell is Path going to look at my address book and distinguish my best friend from my plumber? SSL? Bullshit. Just because Path was using SSL doesn't make up for the fact that they were storing a copy of the data without telling the user. A server breach is far more damaging than a man-in-the-middle attack. At the very least, they should have informed the users of the risk they were taking. "Other apps do it, too." Bullshit. That doesn't make it okay. There are plenty of developers who could copy all sorts of data without you knowing. I'm sure some do, but lots don't. It's a choice. You can choose whether or not to be creepy. I love MG's writing and I usually agree with what he says, but I think he's letting his loyalties get in the way here, so much so that he’s willing to be hypocritical.