[sixhoursago]

check out the post on blackvortex.net about Apple's lawsuit against ThinkSecret and to learn the true identity of Nick dePlume.

[wdlove]

Please post the link. Welcome to MacNN.

[MacGorilla]

And this important....how?

[ManOfSteal]

gorickey....EXPOSED!

[sixhoursago]

Originally posted by wdlove:
Please post the link. Welcome to MacNN.

http://blackvortex.net/newsread.php?newsid=15

[rozwado1]

I never want to read someone's typed-out Google process again. Boring

[sixhoursago]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
I never want to read someone's typed-out Google process again. Boring

haha, good call.

[brapper]

I don't know what to do now that I know this..

[Mafia]

Originally posted by brapper:

I don't know what to do now that I know this..

i know how you feel. i'm like whoa, what now.

[Randman]

Stir crazy.

[hyperb0le]

Originally posted by rozwado1:
I never want to read someone's typed-out Google process again. Boring

Seconded.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Yippie, he is the 007 of nerds, life goes on.

[JHromadka]

[CharlesS]

So Nick dePlume is really just a high school kid... I wonder how he got his contacts at Apple. The rumors on his site are often spot on...

[Lateralus]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
So Nick dePlume is really just a high school kid...

College.

[DeathMan]

Originally posted by Lateralus:
College.

Yeah, CharlesS. College. RTFA.

j/k

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by DeathMan:
Yeah, CharlesS. College. RTFA.

j/k

Heh, whoops. Guess I misread it and thought it said he was going to Harvard in fall 2005 rather than 2004. However, this still means that he was a high school kid during the majority of the time the site's been up. Where'd he get his contacts, I wonder?

[Axo1ot1]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
So Nick dePlume is really just a high school kid... I wonder how he got his contacts at Apple. The rumors on his site are often spot on...

He screens them well. People email him ****, and if their dirt ends up being the truth, he then treats them as a contact. He doesn't print anything anyone's told him until he's established that they're reliable.

Why people talk to him is anybody's guess.

[DeathMan]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Heh, whoops. Guess I misread it and thought it said he was going to Harvard in fall 2005 rather than 2004. However, this still means that he was a high school kid during the majority of the time the site's been up. Where'd he get his contacts, I wonder?

Yeah, I was just joking about that. I didn't even read it. I just think its funny how everyone is so into correcting everyone else around here.

Didn't he have the site up for a while before he ever started getting any good info? I remember think secret as being just a bunch of made up crap.

Maybe over time they just legitimatized.

[sixhoursago]

yeah it would be interesting to hear where he met his contacts. though that's unlikely to be learned through Google. and i'm glad you're all enjoying my article.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by DeathMan:
Yeah, I was just joking about that. I didn't even read it. I just think its funny how everyone is so into correcting everyone else around here.

Didn't he have the site up for a while before he ever started getting any good info? I remember think secret as being just a bunch of made up crap.

Maybe over time they just legitimatized.

Who knows, I've only been following TS recently, when it's been very reliable. But I suppose things could change - after all, MOSR was once a site that had good info (I remember when they were the first to predict the Cube), but now it's a complete joke.

[sixhoursago]

yeah, CharlesS, I see what you're saying. It's likely that it cycles. These sources may get scared away from ThinkSecret now, but it's just a matter of time before them or someone else starts to talking again, and not necessarily to ThinkSecret.

-And hey everyone, scroll down blackvortex.net to the poll and cast your vote as a Mac geek. All of my friends who regular the site are Wintel geeks. Let's stuff the ballots.

[Big Mac]

I did not know anything about Nick Ciarelli, even though people were making the deduction back as early as 2003 (Mac Rumors post after WWDC). But at least I am in good company - along with Apple. If Apple still did not know of Ciarelli even after filing this suit, I suppose the sleuths working for the company aren't too sharp. It is not as if de Plume went to great lengths to conceal his identity.

[Randman]

Apple would need something a little firmer before naming a specific person in a lawsuit.

[amsalpemkcus]

Originally posted by ManOfSteal:
gorickey....EXPOSED!

YIkes!!! thats some microphallus there dude!!!

[fromthecloud]

Originally posted by Randman:
Apple would need something a little firmer before naming a specific person in a lawsuit.

You mean like looking up the New York public records for corporations and seeing that the contact for the company is: http://appsext5.dos.state.ny.us/corp..._input=DEPLUME

Looks like one of his parent's is a lawyer.

[milhous]

not very smart lawyers considering if apple sued him while being a minor, and a judgment was awarded to apple, his parents assets would be on the line.

[pliny]

ahhh, will this be the end of ThinkSecret?? Obviously they are after the ones who spilled the beans on the mini and iWork and all the rest.

[ThinkInsane]

There's an article about Nick in the local paper today. Apparently, he's born and bred local. I never knew. Or cared really. But it's still kind of cool.

Newspaper blurb