Pastebin to hire staff to tackle hackers' 'sensitive' posts

Considering the none of the top posts on the Trending Pastes page contains any source code, I'd say the site has drifted from it's original mission of "The website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information"

However they state everyone is welcome to post any text, so they aren't discriminating. Users are just mainly using their service for a different purpose than they intended.

I'm beginning to think that this marks the point where people who post 'sensitive' information will start to move to other services.

There is definitely room for a Pastebin-like service for plain text (blog posts). When Pastebin had massive traffic from Anonymous posts, I considered building something (I got blogb.in), but couldn't continue due to personal reasons.

Even though not even mentioned in the story, I'm guessing he also got a visit or two from The Man.

Jeroen Vader, only you could be so bold. (Sorry, couldn't help it.)