I think it has always been that way, what the public is told and what really happened are two different things. For instance, goverments have always hidden things from the public. They say it is the information age and that we have the "right" to know, but what do we know? What "they" tell us!

When it comes to things we hear everyone must be careful and not believe everything you hear.

Large companies are constantly at eat other's throats and I guess if they can get information on the others or put out information on the others, they can help their own business out.

1998: HACKER FOUND DEAD
The following year, in 1998, NDS went looking for more smart card expertise and contacted brilliant German hacker Boris Floricic. Known as ?Tron? in the computer underground, Floricic had gained a reputation for cracking pay-TV systems.
A few weeks later, in October of 1998, Floricic was found dead, hanging from a tree in a Berlin park. The death was ruled a suicide by authorities ? a ruling many hackers reject.
There has never been any assertion that NDS was somehow involved in the death. But the fact that Floricic?s father found a letter from NDS in his son?s belongings indicated the company?s willingness to consult the computer underground for security expertise. The incident also shocked the hacker community, which wondered if computer curiosity could now have deadly consequences.
It wouldn't be the first time someone's death was suspicious in big business.

Take everything with a grain of salt, keep your ears open and wait and see are about the only things we can do.