[attrition] Top Security Firm RSA Tries to Silence Blog

[security curmudgeon]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/rsa-tries-to-silence-blog/
By Kim Zetter
Top Security Firm RSA Tries to Silence Blog

RSA security, one of the top security firms in the country, has sent 
takedown notices to a blogger and his hosting company in an effort to 
silence his discussion of a vulnerability found on a bank web site that 
RSA helps monitor, according to the blogger.

The firm has accused the blogger of trademark infringement a common tactic 
of companies like Wal-Mart and Farmers Insurance Group to silence 
criticism and of running a fraudulent web site that misleads the banks 
customers.

In its efforts to shut down the blog, RSA even claimed that the bloggers 
site could become a host of phishing and other fraudulent scams against 
the bank clients according to a company correspondence posted by blogger 
Scott Jarkoff.

A spokesman for RSA told Threat Level that the company had no response at 
this time.

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