Re: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:04:02 EST, Chris Harrington <cmh () nmi net>  said:

> it properly. If you are referring to Dan Geer, you'd better do a little
> research as to why he was fired. It was not for pointing out MS flaws.

So it was totally coincidental that he got fired by press release the day after
the report came out, and THIS posting from this list had nothing to do with it
(Yahoo link expired, sorry).  I'm sorry, but when a company lets you know that
you've been canned by sending out a press release, and the company statement
says that the report wasn't the company viewpoint, it's not a very large jump
at all to conclude that the compay is just a teensy weensy pit pissed at you.
Now granted, it may have been the proverbial "last straw", but you're going to
have a *very* hard time convincing people that the report didn't have ANYTHING
to do with it...

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:02:49 -0400
From: Tetsujin28GO <tetsujin () comcast net>
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Talk about biting the hand that feeds you
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Message-id: <000d01c38436$def69bf0$6401a8c0@redmeat>

Massachusetts-based AtStakeInc., a computer security firm, said yesterday
that chief technology officer Daniel R. Geer Jr. is "no longer associated"
with the firm. A company statement added that Geer's participation in
preparation of the report was not sanctioned by the firm, and that "the
values and opinions of the report are not in line with [AtStake's] views." 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1209&e=1&u=/washpost/20030926/tc_washpost/a2328_2003sep25&sid=96168965

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