Dan Geer loses CTO job at AtStake after criticizing Microsoft

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Dan is a careful security professional, a good guy, and a contributor to 
Politech:
"Dan Geer on Microsoft, 4-mo delay, and problems with so much code"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02964.html

Note that @Stake has lost no time in deleting his bio from their site:
http://www.atstake.com/company_info/dgeer.html
http://www.atstake.com/company_info/management.html

See Google's cache of those pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.atstake.com/company_info/dgeer.html&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://www.google.com/search?q=http://www.atstake.com/company_info/management.html&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Dan is the first-listed author of a paper that was published this week 
under the aegis of CCIA:
http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf

It's a trade association that is active on many issues including copyright 
but is probably best known for beating up on Microsoft in the courts. 
CCIA's members include Microsoft arch-rivals Sun and Oracle:
http://www.ccianet.org/membership.php3

-Declan

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGASNQR81LD.html
> WASHINGTON (AP) - The chief technology officer for a technology firm that 
> works closely with Microsoft Corp. lost his job after he helped write a 
> study critical of the insecurity of Microsoft software.
> Daniel E. Geer Jr., an expert with nearly three decades studying 
> technology and computer security, learned Thursday he was no longer 
> employed by AtStake Inc. of Cambridge, Mass.  [...]

http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5082649.html
> A computer security expert who contributed to a paper deeply critical of 
> Microsoft has been dismissed by his employer, a consulting company that 
> works closely with the software giant.
> Dan Geer, a longtime computer security researcher, and several colleagues 
> released a controversial study on Wednesday that called the ubiquity of 
> Microsoft software a hazard to the economy and to national security. 
> Although independently financed and researched, the study was distributed 
> by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a 
> Washington-based trade association largely made up of Microsoft's rivals. [...]

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