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Cisco VP To Memo Leaker: Finding You Now 'My Hobby'
netbuzz writes "A Cisco vice president, who happens to have been a CIA operations officer in the 1980s, believes that the employee who recently leaked an internal company memo to a blogger committed corporate treason and violated a 'family' trust. In an email sent to Cisco employees, the executive invites the anonymous leaker to come clean, concedes that's unlikely, and adds, 'so I will now make (finding) you my hobby. Ask around (and) you will find out that I like to work on my hobbies.' That email got leaked and published as well. The tempest was sparked by a series of stories in Network World examining a host of bidding and contract questions involving the California higher education system."
This is why VPs are overpaid children
cool
I'd think his hobby would be more along the lines of "eating cake among other things."
Quinn then underscored his point in a second less widely-distributed memo, in which he added, "I'm all out of gum." Roddy Piper did not immediately return our calls for comment.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Film at 11.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
Looks like someone is going to be on double secret probation.
If he had been a good CIA ops, perhaps he'd still be working for the CIA.
The email is a dead giveaway that they dont have shit on the person who leaked it. If I were the person that leaked it, I would be rejoicing right now.
But you would have guessed that that would be my reaction - you would have counted on it! So I can CLEARLY not choose the wine in front of me!
Everything is better with chainsaws.
...or did he send a very slightly differently punctuated/spaced email to every employee, just to see which version ended up leaked? I'm pretty sure that's what Bruce Schneier would do.
Matthew @ Bytemark Hosting
Little do you know that the Cisco VP has spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder.
it was me.
@EveryCiscoEmployee
-fess up, all of you, all at once
-act nervous and sweat, he's coming for you next
-speak out, because you're not safe anyway
-do tell all your hobbies, especially the cool ones.
Too much noise in the signal is even better for hiding. And it might actually get the VP fired.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I don't think that's the kind of "family" he means. More like the sleeps-with-the-fishes kind of "family".
>Or just ask a bunch of random coworkers to forward it to you
No no, you're not thinking devious enough. Don't ask a random employee.
Ask the coworker you like the least. Leak that one.
Deny everything.
Taa daa.
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BMO
Cisco has unwisely been fighting a land war in Asia too.
That's LAN war....
Hello. My name is Mike Quinn. You leaked my memo. Prepare to die.
Based on his picture eating is a big hobby for him, and he takes it very seriously.