-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1358 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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That's cause Bill doesn't want you to get hurt actually it worked & was what you might expect... as in "truth" being Microsoft is a "threat to national security" and jepordizes global financial stability or something to that effect. The "hurt" refers one of the authors of the report making the aforementioned claims being canned by the company he was some kind of chief of. CMF I believe (Chief Mac Fanatic)
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Sorry about that link. Maybe it's because it's a daily news type thing that it doesn't work. Here's a quick synopsis pasted in.
Security expert who called ubiquity of Microsoft software a national security risk fired
Friday, September 26, 2003 - 10:58 AM EDT
"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," John Borland reports for CNET News.com.
Dan Geer, a longtime computer security researcher along with several colleagues released a study this past Wednesday that "called the ubiquity of Microsoft software a hazard to the economy and to national security," Borland reports. "Cambridge, Mass-based @Stake, where Geer worked as chief technical officer, said in a statement Thursday that the researcher had not gotten his employers' approval for the study's release, and that he was no longer associated with the company."
A Microsoft spokesperson said Microsoft had nothing to do with Geer's dismissal, according to Borland's report.
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-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1358 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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