彭博“窥探门”的六大未解之谜

    彭博在华尔街有了新名字：老大哥。

    在上个周末和周一清晨，对于彭博（Bloomberg）爆出的“窥探门”丑闻，这家媒体帝国的首席执行官丹尼尔•多克托洛夫和该社主编马特•温克勒迅速做出了反应。但经过媒体一个周末外加一天的探查，即彭博社记者窥探了多少彭博终端用户，仍然有一些悬而未决的问题。以下是对其中最扣人心弦的问题的盘点，在 “窥探门”事件中，这些问题的答案还是未知数：

彭博会对其隐私政策进行反思吗？

    如果你在华尔街工作，那你就是一位隐私狂人。这毋庸置疑，因为——你是在华尔街工作。而现在事实表明，彭博终端上的个人信息要比你预想的多得多。举例来说，在每周一下午两点左右，传奇对冲基金经理斯坦利•德鲁肯米勒都在使用他的彭博终端，他的电邮地址被展示给所有其他用户，而根据彭博提供的信息，他在邮件中使用斯坦这个昵称。

    这时候，花旗集团（Citigroup）的首席执行官迈克尔•考伯特并不在彭博终端面前；但美国银行（Bank of American）的首席执行官布莱恩•莫伊尼汉正在使用，虽然他在过去15分钟没有碰过任何按键；杰富瑞国际（Jefferies）的首席执行官理查德•汉德勒也在使用，而且正在打字。

    在对冲基金经理当中，大卫•埃因霍恩在线，而丹•勒布则是离线，至少从他们的彭博终端状态来看是这样。比尔•阿克曼似乎在他的办公室，但离开了终端。当我开始查看时，莱昂•库伯曼已经登录，但并不在使用自己的设备，到下午2点30分时，他又在彭博终端上浏览资讯了。

    花旗集团欧洲、中东及非洲市场电子交易部门的负责人蒂姆•怀尔登伯格没有登录彭博终端，但他正在使用彭博的一款移动应用，这可能是因为他所在的伦敦已经到了下班时间。

    而且，你可以根据公司或人物类型进行搜索。在私募股权投资公司黑石集团（Blackstone），知名战略家拜伦•韦恩和金融家贝内特•古德曼已经登录，该集团房地产部门的主管乔纳森•格雷还没有——很多人认为他有一天会接掌黑石。同样，我还可以看到高盛集团（Goldman Sachs）的那些董事总经理和哈佛MBA毕业生中谁在使用彭博终端谁又不在使用。

    这些信息对所有人开放，现在依旧如此。要查明这些，你不需要是彭博社的记者，也不用知道一些偏门的功能。这类信息经由色点展示出来——绿色是在线，红色是离线——它们就位于用户个人页面上电邮地址的旁边。

    There's a new name for Bloomberg on Wall Street: Big Brother.

    Bloomberg CEO Dan Doctoroff and editor-in-chief Matt Winkler rushed out responses over the weekend and early Monday morning to thespying scandal at the media empire. But after a weekend and a day of media probes into how much client spying was tolerated by reporters at Bloomberg, there were still a number of unanswered questions. Here's a run-down of some the obvious, burning questions that we still haven't gotten to the bottom of in the Bloomberg client bamboozle:

Will Bloomberg rethink its privacy policies?

    If you work on Wall Street and you are a privacy nut, which you know you are because, you know, you work on Wall Street, it turns out there's way more personal information on the Bloomberg machine than you would want. For instance, around 2 p.m. on Monday afternoon, legendary hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller was on his Bloomberg terminal. His e-mail is displayed for all other users to see, and, according to Bloomberg, he goes by Stan.

    Michael Corbat, the CEO of Citigroup (C), was not on his Bloomberg. But Bank of America (BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan was, though he hadn't touched a key for the past 15 minutes. Jefferies CEO Richard Handler was on his Bloomberg and typing away.

    Among hedge fund managers, David Einhorn was in, but Dan Loeb was out, at least as far as their terminals were concerned. Bill Ackman was in his office, it seemed, but had stepped away from his Bloomberg. When I started looking, Leon Cooperman was logged on, but not using his machine. By 2:30, he was surfing his Bloomberg again.

    Tim Wildenberg, who is the head of electronic trading for Citigroup in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, was not logged into his terminal, but he was using a Bloomberg mobile application at the time, probably because in London, where he works, it was after-hours.

    And you can search by firm or types of people. At private equity firm Blackstone (BX), well known strategist Byron Wein and financier Bennett Goodman were in. Jonathan Gray, who heads up the firm's real estate division and many think will someday run the firm, was out. I could also see who was and wasn't using their Bloomberg terminals among Goldman Sachs (GS) managing directors and Harvard MBAs.

    And that's information readily available to everyone and still is. It's not something you had to be a Bloomberg reporter or know some obscure function to find out. The information is displayed in color dots -- green is in and red is out -- next to a user's e-mail address on the personal bio pages.