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AOL CTO Shown the Door

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the goodbye dept.

BrewerDude writes "Reuters is reporting that AOL Chief Technical Officer Maureen Govern has resigned from the company. Is this an appropriate penalty for releasing 20 million keyword search results, or is it too harsh, or not harsh enough? What do the slashdot readers think is the appropriate outcome of this fiasco?"

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  1. The appropriate punishment... by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let it fit the crime.

    AOL should release - without names, of course - the text of all the searches executed by recent AOL CTOs.

    1. Re:The appropriate punishment... by Frogular · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slight problem...

      AOL CTOs have been using Google.

  2. Re:How's this? by stevey · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about only being able to go online with AOL dialup?

  3. Search contents... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny
    Maureen Govern has resigned from the company. Is this an appropriate penalty for releasing 20 million keyword search results...?

    AOL probably found her keyword searches for: "CTO", "fortune 500", "availability", "resume"...

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  4. Let me be the first by eclectro · · Score: 5, Funny

    2356894 new job
    2356894 new job soon
    2356894 macdonalds
    2356894 mcdonalds
    2356894 mcjob
    2356894 postal service
    2356894 going postal
    2356894 guns

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  5. Re:How's this? by MrSquishy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tomato/Tomato
    ...I guess that only works when spoken.

  6. Re:Where's the connections... by pla · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or was the CTO shoved onto her proverbial sword as public sacrifice to blow over the controversy?

    ? No no no! You clearly don't understand the business world, grasshopper...

    She chose to "spend more time with her family", totally unrelated (in a golden-parachute-deflating sense) to the leak. No doubt the evil actions by her underlings, done entirely without her knowledge, made her job just too stressful to keep putting in those gruelling 10 hour workweeks for a paltry seven-figure salary.

    Tsk! Did you even read the press releases? How can you remain skeptical in the face of such incontrovertible proof as the noble and cherished Press Release?