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 --- 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. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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