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Re: [follow-up] Boeing fires employee whose laptop wasstolen
From: "Kim Zetter" <kzetter () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:14:16 -0800
You don't really need to speak with the company's tech expert. Just include a countering quote from a security expert who says that what the pr expert is saying is bunk. Once you start debunking the pr statements in your articles other reporters will follow suit. At least that's what happened when I started covering Diebold and evoting. Kim Nash is right that mainstream reporters don't know what questions to ask when it comes to tech issues, but if tech reporters do their job correctly, other reporters will learn from this and start finding the right sources to interview for their pieces. On 12/15/06, Donald Aplin <DAplin () bna com> wrote:
I do ask, but they waffle and clam up. Primarily they trot out the PR/communicatrions department people or the PR consulting firm they have hired--and those folks work from a script. They won't willingly give access to their own tech experts and even if I can find one of them on my own, they don't really want to talk for fear of retaliation. Donald G. Aplin Legal Editor BNA's Privacy & Security Law Report _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 507 incidents over 6 years.
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