Microsoft has dismissed an employee for placing a picture of Power Mac G5s being delivered to the company's print shop on his weblog.
In the same blog, Michael Hanson says that it seems that posting the picture 'is seen by Microsoft Security as a security violation'.
'The picture might have been permissible,' he adds, 'but because I mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.'
Hanson's manager explained the reason for his dismissal: 'Unfortunately, Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you're no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus.'
Hanson says that he was surprised by the decision to sack him, thinking that he had done what he could to avoid the possibility.
'To my mind, it's an innocuous post. The presence of Macs on the Microsoft campus isn't a secret (for everything from graphic design work to the Mac Business Unit) and when I took the picture, I made sure to stand with my back to the building so that nothing other than the computers and the truck would be shown - no building features, no security measures, and no Microsoft personnel.'
Which begs the question, why take and then publish the picture at all?
Thursday 30th October 2003
Microsoft sacks employee for G5 photograph
Microsoft has dismissed an employee for placing a picture of Power Mac G5s being delivered to the company's print shop on his weblog.
In the same blog, Michael Hanson says that it seems that posting the picture 'is seen by Microsoft Security as a security violation'.
'The picture might have been permissible,' he adds, 'but because I mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line.'
Hanson's manager explained the reason for his dismissal: 'Unfortunately, Microsoft has the right to decide that because of what you said, you're no longer welcome on the Microsoft campus.'
Hanson says that he was surprised by the decision to sack him, thinking that he had done what he could to avoid the possibility.
'To my mind, it's an innocuous post. The presence of Macs on the Microsoft campus isn't a secret (for everything from graphic design work to the Mac Business Unit) and when I took the picture, I made sure to stand with my back to the building so that nothing other than the computers and the truck would be shown - no building features, no security measures, and no Microsoft personnel.'
Which begs the question, why take and then publish the picture at all?
Simon Aughton
MacUser Magazine
Tim :D :D