"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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