Off-Topic: Leaks and Responsibility

It's obvious that there is going to be a lot of fall-out and discussion about the "N900/Rover" phone/tablet reporting. If the leaked specs are fake, many blogs got taken for a ride and there will be both cheering and disappointment when the real device lands (depending on features.) If the specs are real, well...

What kind of person takes internal trade secrets and gives them to a blog without any level of confidentiality assured? It's nice to speculate and toss around wish-lists for new devices, but it's really quite rude and destructive to take internal specs and engineering samples and lay them out for the whole public to pick apart. There's also a huge difference between a leak through negligence (like FCC reports outside confidentiality or some partner company releasing advertising too early) and the active work of someone taking specs from confidential material and sending it off to a blog.

Anyhow - if someone did actively leak product documents, they will be found and fired I am sure. In the meantime, I'm pretty sure Nokia is working hard to lock down secrets again which - sadly - makes it harder on blogger relations.