[attrition] [Dataloss] Darwin Professional Underwriters - Tech-404.com (fwd)

[security curmudgeon]

Sorry for the x-post if you are on both lists.

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From: lyger <lyger at attrition.org>
To: dataloss at attrition.org
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:35:54 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Dataloss] Darwin Professional Underwriters - Tech-404.com



For anyone interested, we came across a curious situation in the last week.

It seems that a company by the name of Darwin Professional Underwriters took it
upon themselves to "borrow" attrition.org's RSS feed and incorporate it into
one of their own pages, found here:

http://www.tech-404.com/rss/data_loss.aspx

Darwin is a provider of commercial services for "liability insurance". Press
releases have been issued, media attention has been gained, and Darwin has
gathered quite a bit of press and attention regarding their "data loss
calculator" in the last week.  However, it should be noted that Darwin IN NO
WAY contacted attrition.org about using our RSS feed for their page.  In NO WAY
did Darwin responnd to email contact about this situation.  They are using OUR
resources that we spent our own time developing and making available to the
public... for their own commercial gain.  They're ripping off attrition.org,
and we will not let this stand.

Darwin representatives, get a set of balls.  Our work.  Our time.  You owe us.
Take it down or we'll just clown you again.

Oh, wait...

we already did.

http://www.tech-404.com/rss/data_loss.aspx

Lyger (attrition.org staff, damn proud of it, and screw you, Darwin)

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