Re: [ISN] Technology Firm With Ties to Microsoft Fires Executive Over Criticism

[Jason Coombs <jasonc () science org>]

InfoSec News wrote:
> Forwarded from: Paul Robichaux <paul () robichaux net>
> 1. Geer claimed to be speaking for @stake. He wasn't.

I do hope that all of you actually read the report before forming any 
opinions about it, the people who wrote it, or the manner in which those 
people portrayed themselves as authors of it. It is simply impossible to 
interpret Geer's role in authoring this report as anything close to 
"speaking for @Stake" -- it was clearly the "speaking" part that got him 
canned, and one need not be paranoid in order to see Microsoft's direct 
or indirect influence in the growing "punishment for speech" phenomenon 
within the United States. @Stake's own political bias in advancing the 
so-called "responsible disclosure" process is a crucial element of 
criminalizing speech... We can't put speakers in prison unless we can 
prove that they violated the rules with their speech, so @Stake is busy 
trying to define the rules.

The whole business makes me feel sick. What we really need is freedom, 
and the ability to defend ourselves adequately from anyone who might 
choose to exercise theirs in a way that doesn't conform to other 
people's arbitrary definition of "responsible". There was a time in the 
past when there was little doubt that we had freedom.

Freedom must be one of the costs of monopoly.

CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly
How the Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk to Security
http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf

Sincerely,

Jason Coombs
jasonc () science org

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