Toronto Queen West Voyeur Pete Forde

I went back and forth about posting this here, but at the end of the day I think developers have a special trust from society and our community deserves to talk about actions like this.

I know Forde personally. He isn't this horrible bundle of evil that some make him out to be, but he did majorly fuck up and he didn't just hurt his direct victims and himself. He degraded the trust that people in Toronto have for software developers. Trust people need to have if they're to trust our work product.

That said, I hope one day this is behind him and he remakes himself and positively contributes to the groups of people he hurt. I'm optimistic that he will. He's already helping with Facebook, after all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=peteforde