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Date: 2000-05-17

Ein Civil Libertarian bei Microsoft


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Dass sie Bennett Haselton im sogenannten Empire of Evil
Redmondiensis überhaupt genommen haben ist schon
einmal ziemlich lustig und erinnert an so genannte
Wallraffiaden im DE der 70er Jahre.

Dass sie den Guten, der seit Jahren im Netz dafür bekannt
ist, einem Verein namens Peacefire vor zu stehen, der Mittel
gegen Zensurprogramme verteilt, nicht hinausgeschmissen
haben, dies aber in der Presse so hinüberkommt, sagt
eigentlich alles über ein nicht reparables Image/problem.
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Date sent: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:20:00 -0500 From:
Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org> To: peacefire-
press@iain.com Subject: NYTimes blows my cover Send
reply to: Bennett Haselton <bennett@peacefire.org>

I answered the following questions during a Jerry-Maguire-like
crisis of conscience, after the CNN interview when I said that
I had done this for the greater good of all humanity, instead of
saying I had done it to get Peacefire in the news. The result
was the following article, which you might especially enjoy if
you've been talking to double-speaking PR flacks all day.

EX-MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE PUBLICIZES A POTENTIAL
SECURITY FLAW
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/16t
sc-soft.html

[minor correction: I wasn't "dismissed" or asked to resign, I
just quit]

>>> Haselton, whose discovery was detailed in an article in
The Wall Street Journal on Monday, said in a telephone
interview that he was looking for flaws in Microsoft software in
hopes that he could expose them to gain publicity for his anti-
censorship Web site.

"I did this for the publicity," Haselton said. "I hope the people
on my old working group saw it in The Wall Street Journal."

Haselton said he worked at Microsoft from May 1999 until
January and had hoped to become a software engineer
tasked to ferret out bugs for the company. He said that he
was not allowed to take training courses and was instead
dismissed from the company.

"They said I was too dumb for it," Haselton said.

The spokeswoman for Microsoft confirmed that Haselton had
worked for the company. >>>

-Bennett

bennett@peacefire.org http://www.peacefire.org (425) 649
9024
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published on: 2000-05-17
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