Verisign's public opinion play

Tue Oct 7 06:00:20 UTC 2003

I wish it were lack of clue.  This is something far more evil than lack
of clue, and, the bottom line is that these guys are much better at
PR than most of us.  Since they can't win on engineering, because they
are wrong, they are trying to make it a PR battle instead.  They are
having some success.  We _MUST_ fight this as a PR battle.  We _MUST_
write courteous, prompt, and, factual replies to these publications.
The more people who do that, the better our side will look.  We must point
out where Verisign is lying, and, we must concede where they are not.
We must clarify where their technically accurate statements lead to
wildly inaccurate perceptions.

Owen

--On Monday, October 6, 2003 23:15 -0400 Brian Bruns <bruns at 2mbit.com> 
wrote:

>
> Wish someone who was good with the clue-axe would take a swing at these
> dolts.
>
> We all know they are crying babies because their new method of profit was
> shut down.
>
> Now, the interesting question will be, how can we prevent them from adding
> sitefinder again?
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kee Hinckley" <nazgul at somewhere.com>
> To: <nanog at merit.edu>
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:12 PM
> Subject: Verisign's public opinion play
>
>
>>
>> Take your blood pressure medicine before reading this one.
>> http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html
>> Apparently our objections stem from our lingering resentment over the
>> commercial use of the internet.
>>
>> In case you're wondering who the author is, since neither the bio on
>> the page or Verisign's site is helpful.  Mark McLaughlin is a former
>> lawyer who moved into Marketing and Biz Development (Caere, Gemplus,
>> Signio and then Verisign payments).
>> --
>> Kee Hinckley
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>>
>> I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
>> responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to
> regulate
>> everyone else's.
>>
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