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Ken Dilanian was outed recently working with the CIA to 'craft' journalism about the use of Drones overseas.

Behavior like his should be rewarded, and the behavior of those he outed should be punished.

Perhaps they also knew that other bad actors had already discovered this particular 0-day and wanted it to be outed?

What about the person outed as gay because they were tagged with a whole group of openly gay people on holiday?

I feel like he should be outed to the HN community so no one else uses him.

I'll buy that a cheater deserves to be outed to their partner, but to their boss?

You can't even criticize this stuff without being outed as a heretic.

I imagine it'd be difficult for a person to claim their $100k without immediately being outed.

What this article has done is outed all the Canadians on HN.

That is why I think he's preparing for Google to be outed vis a vis the extent of its cooperation with government.

Maybe Instagram restored it (once they were outed)?

For example, someone in the Bush administration outed CIA agent Valarie Plame for political reasons, and General Patraeus disclosed classified information and got a slap on the wrist.

The only way I could understand such a contention would be if you were to also claim that journalists and activists should be "outed" for working on such documents.

I believe the lawyer blogged about the problem of "patent trolls" anonymously for while at Intel in the late 90's, but was later "outed".

Schmidt is trying to do two things: (1) Preparing for Google to eventually be "outed" about just how much data it actually hands over to the government on the basis of the Patriot Act; (2) Distracting the general public from the broader range of privacy concerns that Google raises (specifically: private surveillance as contrasted with government surveillance).