As background: Charles Stross is a prolific science-fiction author. He's a smart guy with a lot of interesting things to say about the future of technology.
Singularity Sky : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky
Accelerando: (free ebook) http://manybooks.net/titles/strosscother05accelerando-txt.ht...
(Possibly for legal reasons, it's billed as fiction ;-)
I thought such events only happened at Apple, and chiefly around leakers.
;-)
Oh gods, the horror, the horror.