[H-GEN] The heavy hand of the evil empire strikes again

Nick Kwiatkowski nickolas at au1.ibm.com
Tue Sep 30 01:35:37 EDT 2003


[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
[ Unix-related topics. Posts from non-subscribed addresses will vanish. ]





Greg Black wrote:
> We recently had some references to a security report authored
> by, amongst others, Dan Geer of Usenix and, until just now, of
> AtStake Inc.  It seems that AtStake, described as "a technology
> firm that works closely with Microsoft", have now unburdened
> themselves of Geer.  Read all about it:
>
>    http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7069
>

The thing is that Dan was one of the main authors, for a paper that he did
on his own personal time. However, he used AtStake's name and his position
there for the paper. Regardless, of whether AtStake's clients include
Micro$oft or not, they are right to take action against him using the
company's name. Now whether firing him was overkill, ummm, but CTO/CIO[1]
tend to burn brightly then disappear.

Ciao,

Nik

[1] Read a report recently that the average job term for a CTO/CIO is three
years. Extremely short compared to the other executive positions (aka
CEO,CFO, ...)

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect
AMS Solutions Enablement (ASE)
Application Management Services
IBM Global Services
phone:  07 3887 6304,  mobile:  0412 121 276,  email:  nickolas at au1.ibm.com
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity" - Albert Einstein



--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.  See http://www.humbug.org.au/



More information about the General mailing list