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Re: Oops: Auditor Loses McAfee Employee Data (fwd)


From: blitz <blitz () strikenet kicks-ass net>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:36:53 -0500

That goes down in the laugh book, with his proclamation of "unbreakable", as well. (McNealy)

You have only the privacy and security you demand and enforce!

If you declare something unbreakable, the best out there will indeed, 'break' it, just to make an ass out of you.


At 12:21 2/25/2006, you wrote:

: Meanwhile, Ernst and Young had a similar problem, including losing the
: info for a client CEO (Sun's Scott McNealy).
:
: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/25/ernst_young_mcnealy/

The article touches on the most amusing part:

  Then again, the accounting firm could just stick with the "You have no
  privacy. Get over it" line.

This was said and widely discussed (laughed about) back in Jan of 1999 by
Scott McNealy to reporters and analysts. It's a bit ironic that he would
bring this incident up when talking about security. I sure hope someone in
the audience shouted out his infamous quote.

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