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Ruth Suehle is the community leadership manager for Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team. She's co-author of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O'Reilly, December 2013) and a senior editor at GeekMom, a site for those who find their joy in both geekery and parenting. She's a maker at heart who is often behind a sewing machine creating costumes, rolling fondant for an excessively large cake, or looking for the next great DIY project.
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<em>How am I supposed to know they are the "good guys" when they send me unsolicited e-mail?</em>
Exactly. When I re-read it, I got that they were probably trying to convey that, but they did a pretty bad job of it.
Not sure what you mean by people they've pinged. Do you mean anyone someone at Gawker has ever emailed? Gawker says that it was just commenter accounts. Here's what Forbes said about the extent of the breach:
<blockquote>analysis of the file released by the crackers themselves indicates that the breach extends to employees of Gawker, includes credentials for internal systems (Google applications, collaboration tools) used at the company, includes a leak of Gawker’s custom source code, includes credentials of Gawker employees for other web sites, includes FTP credentials for other web sites Gawker has worked with, includes access to Gawker’s statistics web site, and includes the e-mails of a number of the users who left comments at Gawker as well as users of lifehacker.com, kotaku.com, and gizmodo.com.</blockquote>