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December 10, 2008 1:08 PM PST

Window Snyder to leave Mozilla

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Window Snyder, Mozilla's chief security something-or-other (her official title), is leaving Mozilla, effective the end of the year.

"I am sad to be leaving," she wrote in her blog on Wednesday, "but I am excited to go work on something I have always been passionate about. I wish I could tell you about it now, but that will have to wait for a while."

In an interview earlier this year, Snyder stressed to me how she wants to bring open-source practices to the security community. And her background certainly supports that passion.

Snyder is the co-author of Threat Modeling, a book about application security. Her security work started at @Stake (now a part of Symantec) before continuing at Microsoft. Later she helped found Matasano Security before landing at Mozilla in September 2006.

Johnathan Nightingale, Lucas Adamski, Brandon Sterne, and Mike Shaver will continue to blog about security at Mozilla in Snyder's absence.

As CNET's resident security expert, Robert Vamosi has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and other outlets to share his knowledge about the latest online threats and to offer advice on personal and corporate security. Listen to his podcast at securitybites.cnet.com or e-mail Robert with your questions and comments.
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by Mr. Dee December 10, 2008 3:38 PM PST
Maybe she's upgrading her name to Windows 7.
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by jawbreaker6969 January 20, 2009 8:04 AM PST
That would not be up-grading ! That would be down grading !
by nirvan5a December 10, 2008 5:18 PM PST
i think cause of money.
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by halihassan December 10, 2008 7:17 PM PST
http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/12/10/security-chief-window-snyder-leaving-mozilla/
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