Yahoo! News - Some Say Product May Curb Whistleblowing
Which is more important: curbing corporate espionage and keeping records private, or making life more difficult for potential whistleblowers?
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Microsoft's upcoming Windows Rights Management services has apparently put them in a no-win situation. In an effort to make corporate documents more secure (a noble effort for which they have taken flack in the past when their efforts have failed), they have drawn fire from watchdog and accountability organizations who claim their efforts will retard the ability for a potential whistleblower to, well, blow the whistle.
Yes, it will.
Too bad.
Microsoft should press ahead and deliver the most secure technology possible. The value of trustworthy computing services, day to day, far outweighs the potential that a whistleblower might not be able to access some documents at some point in the future. Microsoft and other companies have a legal and fiduciary responsibility to their customers, employees, vendors and shareholders to protect their information. That responsibility is superior to the company's responsibility to make it easy for a disgruntled employee to bring action against the company.
This is in no way meant to minimize the responsibility of a customer, employee or other individual to be vigilant about potential wrongdoing - but in the grand scheme of things, the daily business of business is facing more and more fronts of aggression from outside hackers, inside jobs, espionage and blatant theft and need to shore up those defenses first.
Microsoft needs to stick to the knitting. They've suffered enough criticism for security holes in their products, and should press forward to make the best software and systems possible, ingoring any yammering from watchdog organizations.
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