I really wish people would dial back on the gloating promotion of their own pet theories and maybe wait until a little bit more information is available before jumping to conclusions.
Bad actors and unstable people are found in EVERY organization, no matter what the hierarchy or lack thereof.
A falling out at GitHub proves nothing! This is a datum, not a statistical study. How many traditionally run organizations have completely imploded and gone bankrupt, or been involved in HR lawsuits?
I find it completely asinine that people will use GitHub's problems to push their pet theories.
Like you did here, and I quote: "The proper target for anger in this case is the NSA and the government which allowed this to happen"? But mention sexism and everybody's a fucking lawyer waiting for all sides to be heard. Double standard?
Did people think github was different because it has a cat/octopus thing for a logo?
I would have expected a community of smart individuals to sincerely examine these accusations, even if they are not the whole story behind this current scandal, because we could only benefit from such a discussion.
That this article has been flagged by several people only demonstrates a great level of immaturity and that we, as an industry, more than deserve scorn. We can certainly not claim to be open minded and thoughtful after this.
From my experience, smartness, sincerity and a sufficiently malleable ego (that enables one to look at accusations constructively) don't always go hand-in-hand. They seem like orthogonal qualities.
People who weren't there arguing about how something they know nothing about actually happened and what can be done to prevent it.
I think to prevent something like this happening again we need to ensure employees can't disable their transponders, either that or make sure we have more power structures in the cockpit.