I have received dozens of emails, asking me about Server8 details and when I am going to post..
For me to post elements of Server 8 right now would be illegal, criminal, unethical and immoral.
For those people already posting Server 8 information, they are breaking the law as well as acting in an irresponsible and unethical manner. They need to think how they will be viewed as a professional technologist.
As a technologist, the most important three things we have are trust, knowledge, and loyalty.
Customers do not measure the trust of a technologist because of what they read about you in without facts, how stupid you may have acted as a teenager, how rude you may be, or even how weird you are…
Customers& and employers trust technologists from our track records in business as an adult.
The longer you are a technologist, the longer you work in IT, and the longer you do NOT disclose confidential information, the more trusted you are.
The more trusted you are the more value you bring to a company or client as a technologist.
Thus, trust is measured in years of professional technology and non-disclosure.
Trust is earned as a professional over years.
Server8 and TAP (what I have posted) are not confidential. What is behind that however is confidential. It is also Copyright protected, Trademarked and protected with NDA’s and confidential stamps.
Technologists see things, hear things, read things no one else in the world has access to… In the business world, the first time you break that trust and it is electronically substantiated or proven you broke that trust… You are done… Finished. DO not pass go, go straight to McDonalds.. And not as their next I.T. staff member… (Hint.. headset and the phrase “Hi. How may I take your order? Would you like to dry a delicious hot apple pie today?…)
How is it different for those people who are disclosing information about Server8 online already?
It’s not. Because they have disclosed specific elements regarding Server8, they have become a liability to a potential customer.. To a potential client… They have released confidential information and potentially broken the law.
Those people should REALLY step back, read this and think about not only the legal consequences for disclosing Server 8 elements, but the future professional consequences for doing so.
The Electronic Espionage Act and theft of trade secrets.. Specifically 18 U.S.C. §§1832(a)
This act prohibits the commercial theft of trade secrets carried out for economic or commercial advantage, whether the perpetrator is foreign or domestic.
Regardless of how you obtained the information, as long as the prosecution could prove that you knew that information “probably” was not supposed to be made public yet… That is all that is needed.
All elements of Server8 are marked “confidential” (still to this day) thus the above element is met.
Think no one is prosecuted for these things? Think again… Here’s one from 2002…. http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/rector_snyderSentence.htm
This federal law prohibits the commercial theft of trade secrets carried out for economic or commercial advantage…
To the argument of “I didn’t sell it for financial or commercial gain, nor did I benefit from it.. I just wanted to tell the world about it…”
Uhmmm.. You DID benefit from doing it.. You posted confidential information before anyone else did and even the slackest of attorneys would have no problem saying “It increased his page ranking or increased his SEO and made him/her look like an expert..”
Think about that, and think about the fact that I can assure you.. Microsoft has probably one of the best legal teams in the world…
Besides the potential loss of five million bucks, if jail does not appeal to you take a read here.. http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/usamay2001_6.htm
Remember.. No one ever thought they would be arrested and sued for downloading songs either..
To post confidential information is illegal, criminal, unethical and immoral.
For me, what is equally important is as a professional technologist, the ethical and moral responsibility.
I have been honored and blessed with being able to participate in TAP. I do not work for Microsoft. I did not write this program. It is not mine to give out.. It is not my thunder to steal.
My gift and pay for this is the knowledge I receive, the education that is given to me, and most importantly, the friends I have made. These three things are priceless and I would never betray the people that gave me this opportunity. I would never steal their thunder.
I would never betray the trust of a friend…………….
So all in good time.. The which you seek.. It will come and I assure you will be extremely accurate….
For those of you who think by posting confidential information without written consent you look like the leading expert?
You don’t ……
You look like a technologist who cannot be trusted with company, client or personal confidential information. That is the appearance you are giving by posting company confidential information.
By posting such information, you have become a liability no business would want to risk having onboard.
Patience… IS… a virtue and to a professional technologist, trust, loyalty and knowledge are the three things technologists have that no one can ever take from us….
@Brian_Bell – A Geek.. Just bloggging…
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