HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack. Blames Google's customer service

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Post by desigooner » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 3:16 AM UTC

HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack. Blames Google's customer service
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Re: HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack. Blames Google's customer service

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Post by pinko » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 3:19 AM UTC

Am I the only one who sees the irony in HBGary's CEO complaining that "Google’s call center set up elaborate hoops through which they expected [him] to jump in order to validate his identity"?

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Post by noonespecial » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 3:23 AM UTC

pinko wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who sees the irony in HBGary's CEO complaining that "Google’s call center set up elaborate hoops through which they expected [him] to jump in order to validate his identity"?

Nope, there's so much irony in this whole story that if you dug it all up and mixed in a little carbon, you'd get steely.

Re: HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack. Blames Google's customer service

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Post by originalgeek » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 5:14 AM UTC

Sounds like he's trying to goad Anonymous into a follow-up attack / trap.

Re: HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack. Blames Google's customer service

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Post by Gunkertyjeb » Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 12:50 PM UTC

pinko wrote: post #2

Am I the only one who sees the irony in HBGary's CEO complaining that "Google’s call center set up elaborate hoops through which they expected [him] to jump in order to validate his identity"?

Lest there be any doubt, his exact words: "And I'm waiting on the phone and I can't do the technical magic tricks, jumping through the hoops that Google wanted me to jump through, to get them to listen to me."