Ethics

What is going on these days ? In the last week I have entered into projects with two separate customers who have been terrorized (the customer's wording, in one case) by their existing IT vendor, and want to find a new provider who won't attack them... I find it hard to think with. I have been told stories that demonstrate extremely poor character being played out in cases where the I...

From: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080319/020719583.shtml from the it's-that-simple dept TechCrunch points us to a story that I had to triple-check wasn't an early April Fool's release, concerning a Canadian internet company named GeoSign that supposedly raised $160 million a year ago to fuel its Google ad arbitrage play, only to have it all collapse in a year, in part due to Google finally hi...

The Case of the Hired Hacker From: http://www.mcafee.com/us/research/criminology_report/default.html A businessman hired a sixteen-year-old New Jersey hacker to disable the Web sites of his competitors. The hacker launched a program that placed bots on 2,000 unprotected computers that he then used for a distributed denial of service attack. The attacks were repeated over five months and d...