more on SFGate: VERISIGN/On the Record: Stratton Sclavos

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
Organization: Memory Palace Press
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:27:04 -0800 (PST)
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] SFGate: VERISIGN/On the Record: Stratton Sclavos

Dave -

You kind of expect the CEO of a company to walk the walk.  You know ...
the CEO of Procter & Gamble probably really knows his toilet paper,
the CEO of General Motors probably has some clue as to what kind of
car to get.

So, it was with some amazement I noticed this in the Sclavos interview:

>    Two weekends ago, my daughter said, "Dad, I opened up an e-mail I knew I
> shouldn't have opened up, and now my machine is slow." I ran one of the
> tools you can get online for free (and found) 937 instances of spyware or
> pop-ups or something like that. And my kids, you would think, are aware of
> this stuff.

937 instances of spyware?  He used a free tool you can get online (many of
which,
as your readers all probably know, install yet more spyware on your system)?
And, perhaps most disturbing, the CEO of the "trust" company demonstrates
his command of the technical lingo with terms like "spyware or pop-ups or
something like that"?  Pretty scary.  :)

Carl


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> Organization: SFGate, San Francisco, CA
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 08:08 -0800
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: SFGate: VERISIGN/On the Record: Stratton Sclavos

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