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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:32:59PM +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: > At 07:50 AM 10/23/2002, Jamie C. Pole wrote: > >It's a terrible thing when the most "competent" assessment of an attack > >comes from a "company spokesperson", rather than someone just a little more > >technical... > In my reality the shop floor is not allowed to comment on something > that is seen as vital to a corporation's interests at all. This > in order not to destroy carefully crafted statements by the spokespeople > vetted by the lawyerpeople. Such statements tend to be designed to > hide the bad news and amplify whatever snippets of good news can be found. > The *perceived* "affluence" of *comptetent* technical people has an effect on this: > It makes the shop floor *much less* likely to talk even to peers for fear of > their jobs. Gee... And for some reason today's [10/23] "Helen, Sweeheart of the Internet" <http://www.comicspage.com/helen/index.html> comic strip seems sooo relavent to this discussion... :-> > Daniel Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | [email protected] /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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