But not exactly in this way. My email, one of them, anyway, is my first and last name. There's a doctor who shares those names and for many years I got lots of emails that were his staff. Including patient records. One Christmas, I got a query about what should be done about staff gifts. I was really tired of getting emails from this office by that point, having politely told them they had the wrong guy. I wrote back, Fire them all. The good doctor diagnosed me as an asshole, correctly perhaps. But I stopped getting his emails. What was really worrisome was their sending patient records without any thought of security.
Marco Arment followed up his post with another after, talking about how much he regretted the first post. http://www.marco.org/2015/01/0.... He says:
"This morning, my words were everywhere, chopped up and twisted by sensational opportunists to fuel the tired “Apple is doomed!” narrative with my name on them. (Or Tumblr’s name, which was even worse.) Business Insider started the party, as usual, but it spread like wildfire from there. Huffington Post. Wall Street Journal. CNN. Heise. Even a televised CNBC discussion segment."
Both are worth a read. He does have valid points about the bugginess of Apple's software, but still makes the case that it's better than the competition. About the post, he says, he woke to "an unstoppable nightmare of embarrassment and guilt. Most people, myself included, aren’t accustomed to that level of scrutiny. Those who are usually have PR training, editors, and handlers to protect them from publishing flippant blog posts before they go to bed."
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But not exactly in this way. My email, one of them, anyway, is my first and last name. There's a doctor who shares those names and for many years I got lots of emails that were his staff. Including patient records. One Christmas, I got a query about what should be done about staff gifts. I was really tired of getting emails from this office by that point, having politely told them they had the wrong guy. I wrote back, Fire them all. The good doctor diagnosed me as an asshole, correctly perhaps. But I stopped getting his emails. What was really worrisome was their sending patient records without any thought of security.
Except, apparently, Arment does not agree with his own post. Read his followup post—link at my comment below.
Marco Arment followed up his post with another after, talking about how much he regretted the first post. http://www.marco.org/2015/01/0.... He says: "This morning, my words were everywhere, chopped up and twisted by sensational opportunists to fuel the tired “Apple is doomed!” narrative with my name on them. (Or Tumblr’s name, which was even worse.) Business Insider started the party, as usual, but it spread like wildfire from there. Huffington Post. Wall Street Journal. CNN. Heise. Even a televised CNBC discussion segment." Both are worth a read. He does have valid points about the bugginess of Apple's software, but still makes the case that it's better than the competition. About the post, he says, he woke to "an unstoppable nightmare of embarrassment and guilt. Most people, myself included, aren’t accustomed to that level of scrutiny. Those who are usually have PR training, editors, and handlers to protect them from publishing flippant blog posts before they go to bed."