Re: [fw-wiz] @Stake CTO fired for Microsoft comments

From: Ryan M. Ferris (rferris_at_rmfdevelopment.com)
Date: 09/26/03

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    To: "Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr" <gwen@reptiles.org>, <firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:39:23 -0700

    Gwendolyn:

    Last year DARPA cancelled a contract with OpenBSD researchers in
    Pennsylvania, after Theo deRaadt made a comment like:
    "I try to convince myself that the DARPA grant is saving the cost of half a
    cruise missile."

    If you use fascist logic to fire CEOs for telling the truth and deny funding
    to the study of other more secure OS because of political commentary, you
    will end up with the mixed results of a fascist technology. In this case,
    our country will continue to have weak network security due to a fascist
    agenda, leaving us vulnerable to other countries who have no such monopolies
    or politics to prevent them from choosing security vendors in an unbiased
    fashion. If we let Microsoft have it's way, open source software like Snort
    and BSD would be labelled "un-American". ( A highly ironic label given the
    academic start BSD has at a public university....)

    This logic extends well beyond network security. The space shuttle was used
    extensively during Gulf War I. For reasons that are not clear, we do not
    have that technology in place for Gulf War II. The real irony to this is
    that the technology Microsoft condemns as being un-American, gets developed
    here and then adopted abroad. Have you heard the rumour of the complaints by
    the administration about the DPRK using Linux clusters to develop nuclear
    weapons?

    When we wake up 15 years from now and find Russian, Chinese, and Indian
    technology dominating network security and other technologies across the
    world, we can blame ourselves and our great "capitalist nation" that
    utimately discouraged entrepeneurship and innovation by practicing fascism,
    corruption, and a virulent brand of savage, monopolistic capitalism.

    Ryan M. Ferris
    rferris@rmfdevelopment.com

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr" <gwen@reptiles.org>
    To: <firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com>
    Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:40 PM
    Subject: [fw-wiz] @Stake CTO fired for Microsoft comments

    >
    > For anybody that hasn't caught up with this yet:
    >
    > http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/09/25/rtr1092228.html
    >
    > @tStake CTO loses job after Microsoft report
    > Reuters, 09.25.03, 6:46 PM ET
    >
    > SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The chief technology officer of
    > computer security firm AtStake, which consults for Microsoft Corp.
    > (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people), has been fired after taking part in
    > writing a report criticizing Windows as posing a national cybersecurity
    > risk, an associate said on Thursday
    >
    > cheers!
    > ==========================================================================
    > "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound
    > desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to
    > avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now."
    >
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