Flutterby™! : Identifying employers

Wow! So much for pride in your work. Wes pointed out on Sunday that David McOwen, the guy currently fighting conviction for misuse of computing resources because he installed the SETI screensavers on DeKalb Technical College computers, was fired from his job at Cingular because a CNET News article mentioned his employer. Now Mark Pilgrim got fired for disclosing where he worked on his weblog because it tied his employer's name to an essay on addiction. I just got a new employee handbook last week, I'm not going to tell you where because it has that clause in it, but... well... here's hoping some of my other ventures take off soon, I'd like to feel like I can talk about all of my life again.

(Aside: David McOwen is getting screwed, but he was a fool for not seeing the liabilities inherent in running distributed computing projects on computers that weren't his. So slap him on the wrist, fine him for the electricity, and be done with it.)