Did you really need to publicly shame the poor guy with his full name and photo? Don’t you think he feels bad enough already? Did that really add anything to the story? You just took a dark time in this man’s life—caused only by his negligence, not malice—and made it much worse. For what reason? Did you make anyone’s lives better by having done that?
Marco Arment
Marco responded to Gizmodo post “How Apple Lost the Next iPhone”, which identifies the developer who accidentally left the device on a bar tool. Gizmodo paid the finder—I say thief—for the iPhone prototype.