Be wary of what you post to Secret: A hacker detailed to Wired a new way to read any individual's secrets. What's more? There have been 42 security vulnerabilities on the gossip platform discovered by the public in the past six months.

Secret's flimsy anti-bullying system wasn't adequate enough to keep the app from being banned in Brazil. A court ruled that Secret violated the country's constitutional ban on anonymity, and has ordered Google and Apple to remove the gossip platform from their app stores.

Secret, the anonymous gossip app, just raised $25 million in venture cash. According to the New York Times, this values the company at over $100 million.

If you float the theory that "younger users don't like the feeling of being alone. They want to be tethered to their friends constantly," important venture capitalists will invest in your app. It doesn't even need to solve that problem.

On the hierarchy of which employees get acqui-hired, frivolous contributions like user experience and marketing are at the bottom. Designers, who are more likely to be female than their engineering equivalent, are often "the losers in situations like these."

The anonymous app Secret is good for bragging about polyamorous deviances, lifting the veil on #crushit culture, and now getting a job with a powerful venture capitalist.

Snapchat investor Bill Gurley thinks anonymous apps like Secret and Whisper are just a fad, telling Business Insider: "I think it's going to be really hard to monetize."

Worrying about the ethics of venture capitalists is a lot like testing the acoustics of outer space. But you'd think the moneyed white men of Silicon Valley would act with a little class when they get turned down—it's just business, right? Not this time.

Let's put it this way: long-ago-successful venture capitalist Jason Calacanis isn't the absolute smartest man in the business. Otherwise, he probably wouldn't obviously post anonymously to Secret after the covert app rejected a slot on his podcast.

Recode reports a Twitter engineer, Sara Haider, is ditching the company for Secret, the secret-sharing phenom app. This is great news for the latter, bad news for the former, and lovely news for anyone excited to share more anonymous gems.

What's written in Secret is having trouble staying secret. Earlier this week, comments made on the anonymous app were the catalyst for an implosion at GitHub. Now Facebook exec Andrew "Boz" Bosworth is publicly defending himself against criticism from a nameless tweety bird icon.

Gossiping is good business: Secret, the anonymous chatter app du jour, just raised $8.6 million in venture funding. Investors are betting folks outside the tech corridors of California and New York—like the busted Twitter employee above—will be hooked next.

SXSW has morphed into spring break for marketers, but Secret and its investors are working real hard to #win it anyways. The same hour that the app launched a feature to see anonymous confessions nearby, the Journal says Secret will raise $10 million at a $40 million valuation. It launched 5 weeks ago.

Posting secrets anonymously is an old idea on the internet, but Secret is special for one reason: so far it's completely taken over by gossiping techies, early adopters with lots of bile to unload. It's part therapy, part confession, part defamation, and it's a lot of fun to eavesdrop.