[Am-info] AtStake CTO loses job after Microsoft report

[John J. Urbaniak]

So what's next for the other participants in the report?  Dead horses in
their beds?  Chickens nailed to their front doors?  Failing brakes on
their new Porsches?

John

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AtStake CTO loses job after Microsoft report

http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/09/25/rtr1092228.html

Reuters, 09.25.03, 6:46 PM ET
By Elinor Mills Abreu

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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.

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Many companies that privately talked  about Microsoft's strong-arm
tactics wouldn't dare get on the witness stand and say it for fear of
reprisal."