“Daniel Geer, the now-unemployed author of a report critical of
monopolistic technologies, doesn’t understand what all the hoopla
is about.“The long-time network security specialist, who was trained as a
bio-statistician, explained that all he wanted to do in his recent
study was alert Washington insiders and the IT world to the risk of
IT technologies as they relate to business risk.“That study, CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly — How
the Dominance of Microsoft’s Products Poses a Risk to
Security, is now widely believed to be the reason Geer is no
longer associated with @stake, the Boston-based computer security
firm that he co-founded…”
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