Hi Jim, Besides the obvious, exactly why should Cisco or any other vendor in our business be shielded from public scrutiny on products which are faulty? I am sure that Merck would like to have kept Vioxx on the market, even though people died from it. I am just as sure that Guidant Corp did not want the problems with their pacemakers made public, so that they have to fix them for free. What about Ford Explorers and exploding tires? They can't even give them away today. Since there is no equivalent to Consumer Reports for us, we are left with public disclosure.
If it is important enough to stop public disclosure of problems, then it's important enough for vendors to start taking responsbility for what they produce. The resources going into stopping public disclosure would be better used to help secure the products. Those lawyer fees would be a good start. regards, bob On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Jim Duncan wrote: > While any method of contact is better than none, may I suggest you check > the list of FIRST teams at http://www.first.org/ before posting > publicly? While I can't guarantee any given organization will be a > member -- nor can I guarantee a response to the given address -- > Citigroup is a long-time member of FIRST, and their first-team members > have demonstrated excellent responsiveness in the past. >snip... > FIRST Steering Committee Member and FIRST.Org, Inc., Board of Directors -- Dr. Robert Bruen Cold Rain Technologies http://coldrain.net +1.802.579.6288 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/