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by micaksica 3174 days ago
This. I would trust most non-security tech CEOs to give better security advice than the executives at Symantec.
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The Symantec CEO has been in that position only since Symantec acquired Blue Coat last year, where they were CEO previously. The Symantec CA happened well before their current term.
Blue Coat. Has problems with foreign governments being unfriendly?

I guess what goes around comes around: http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/blue-coat-2/

What a fantastic website is that! To add to your point: Amazing how skewed ones morals can be if they believe they're doing the right thing by providing those countries these kinds of tools.
More reasons "trust us" isn't acceptable anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentat...

In case of Syria, this must have been used to help the regime identify people to be disappeared, for sure.
He's doing a bang up job so far then!