[Dataloss] Darwin Professional Underwriters - Tech-404.com

[Avery Sawaba]

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On 4/15/07, lyger <lyger at attrition.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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