arstechnica.com — The corporate guillotine has been wheeled out to deal with the apocalyptic fallout from AOL's infamous decision to release "anonymous" search data on hundreds of thousands of users for research purposes.
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Closed AccountAug 22, 2006
a little late.
r121Aug 23, 2006
I think many corporations must hire a couple people for the sole purpose of publicly firing them after scandals.
mobius20Aug 23, 2006
It doesn't link back to a user ID; it doesn't allow for grouping of searches by users. AOL gave out complete search histories.
takedaAug 23, 2006
I understand firing the decision makers, but emplyees?What choice did they have?Follow their decisions and get fired, or not listening and get fired?I don't think it's fair.
author20Aug 23, 2006
Apparently, AOL has some strong influence on Digg. My post on this message contained a summary of AOL's security and privacy violations over the last 10 years.It was all public information and as solid as a rock.Digg is not trustworthy, going to remember this forever. When a publisher is compromised, it might as well be AOL. Digg is now AOL.
dzhuo04Aug 23, 2006
that rly isnt the major prob that AOL has, AOL is the worst when you want to cancel ur subscription.... i think their little caller refrence charts r like 12 pages long..... good grief, they might as well install their software with a rookit to kp u from canceling their service, and call the big boys at AOL
Closed AccountAug 23, 2006
f**k that...I blame AOL *AND* the people fired. I also think that the CSO should be thrown out on their ass as well for not having better policy in place that prevents this sort of disclosure. The employee should be fired for doing it (unless they were instructed to), the CSO for lack of compliance monitoring and education and the CTO for allowing the technical lapse to happen on their watch. For all the people who think that they're being made the scapegoat, I have one question. Why do you think they pay the C-level execs that kind of money? *HINT* It might have something to do with RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY.
ianbell330Aug 23, 2006
AOL has basically dug their own grave. Any news related to the company is going to be bad news regardless of how positive it is supposed to be. Sell whatever stock you have left of the company and let the Titanic sink...
author20Aug 23, 2006
Until they are gone -- all Americans have a duty to continue beating this corrupt, evil, demon dog. They chant anti-Microsoft "prayers" and then abuse customers for bonuses. It is time to talk about arresting even phone operators along with the management and spokes-persons.