Computer Security (and Job Insecurity)
Dan Gillmor
discusses a Washington Post
article on a computer security expert who was fired from his job shortly after co-authoring an industry association report critical of Microsoft's complicity in allowing recent virus attacks. The report appears to have been written on the employee's own time, during his participation on a professional trade organization (the type of activity, that is, that we should encourage professionals to participate in).
Daniel Geer, the dismissed employee, won't comment on his departure. @Stake, Inc., his former company, offered this explanation: "The values and opinions of the report are not in line with [AtStake's] views."
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PDF version [880k] of the report is available. None of the information in the report is surprising--many industry experts have been warning for years about the effects of Microsoft's dominance of the desktop and laptop market, including serious design flaws (which remain open because they also allow Microsoft apps to do some things that are interesting from a marketing point of view).
Posted by johndan at September 27, 2003 05:40 PM
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