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Okay I've never commented on my affiliation before because I don't want to advertise but this is ridiculous. I am the one who wrote the first article and 'brok
by stevenjohns 12y ago
Okay I've never commented on my affiliation before because I don't want to advertise but this is ridiculous.
I am the one who wrote the first article and 'broke' the story about Gogo's snooping [0]. Plenty of publications also reported on it after it reached high notoriety on Reddit. Some copied parts of my article, some didn't give a source or via to me, some made it appear like they were producing original news. That's fine, I don't really care: it happens to almost every single original article I write (one time I took a screen shot of my own Desktop as an article image and the other websites copied that too with no source) and I've grown use to it - I was just happy that it was making waves and forcing Gogo to reconsider their position.
But in this case, Symantec has copied my original title verbatim. If you're going to literally copy my title verbatim, at least give a link back to it. Ridiculous. It wasn't even a good title.
[0] http://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates http://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intenti...
- TwoBit 12y agoYou need to list all that copying that was done on your resume. What better way to prove your skills than to show how much people are copying you.
- stevenjohns 12y agoIf I was a career journalist I'd probably be more concerned, but I'm a software engineer and write just because I enjoy tech.
- cmwelsh 12y agoOriginal research cited by major news organizations puts you on a whole new level above just "software engineer" for salary purposes. It's resume-worthy if you have a section for academic-type accomplishments.
- stevenjohns 12y agoThat's actually a really salient point. I've never considered it as 'research,' my mind just never made that connection for whatever reason. I'll keep it in mind from now on - thanks!