Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

["Michael H. Warfield" <mhw () wittsend com>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:

> At 07:50 AM 10/23/2002, Jamie C. Pole wrote:
> > It's a terrible thing when the most "competent" assessment of an attack
> > comes from a "company spokesperson", rather than someone just a little more
> > technical...

> In my reality the shop floor is not allowed to comment on something 
> that is seen as vital to a corporation's interests at all. This 
> in order not to destroy carefully crafted statements by the spokespeople 
> vetted by the lawyerpeople. Such statements tend to be designed to
> hide the bad news and amplify whatever snippets of good news can be found.

> The *perceived* "affluence" of *comptetent* technical people has an effect on this:
> It makes the shop floor *much less* likely to talk even to peers for fear of 
> their jobs.

        Gee...  And for some reason today's [10/23] "Helen, Sweeheart of
the Internet" <http://www.comicspage.com/helen/index.html> comic strip
seems sooo relavent to this discussion...

        :->

> Daniel

        Mike
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