Comments on: Dunn to surrender Thursday

Four of the five people facing charges in HP spying case are set to turn themselves in soon.

[mhersh]

That's great...

HP spies, people are charged.
Bush spies, it's all good.

Ludicrous, anyone?

[DBaldwin]

Not impressed by Lockyer's antics

I would vote against him. If he wants to use my tax money properly, perhaps there are better things to investigate (like spin-ins and spin-outs, or are they scam-ins and scam-out?) in the corporate world.

[SomethingToThinkAbout]

This is Ludicrous

California has the worst possible AG in Lockyer. There was nothing malicious about the HP probe, and frankly, it was justified. If they broke some rules, fine, slap their hands. But tearing apart the leadership of a fine company on the rebound, and filing multiple felony counts is just ludicrous (and unlike previous poster "mhersh," I know the meaning of that word).

This will be a small circus event until eventually misdemeanor fines are handed out.

[author20]

She Would Have Paid for Murder

It is clear, these folks would have hired a hit on people if it would have helped them stop leaks or helped to cover up their spy project.

The words of Dunn before she was busted indicate an incredibily unethical person, that would have stopped at nothing to "get" the leakers.

But there are sooooooooo many ways to test your board for loyalty and security. Let's look at a few of them:

1. lie detector tests -- almost 100% reliable.
2. internal moles -- this is ethical, simply get a person to "buddy up" to all board members so that they hear about the same leaked information that is fed to the press.
3. compartmentalization of projects -- so that nobody has all the information on a particular project. They can be led to believe that they know the entire project, and when they leak, they can only divulge what one aspect of the project, thus leaving a stamp that shows what compartment or aspect they have knowledge of.
4. internal wire-taps - both ethical and legal but not that effective since folks don't generally leak from work.
5. job screening -- leakers have reputations. Why did HP have leakers on the board? Because it never really screened them well.
6. document control -- if you don't show documents to people that are not engineers then board members can only leak general information. This limits damage from leaks to what is probably already public.
7. Big paychecks. Why were board members willing to risk their jobs and pay if they were getting enough? This seems strange. Maybe there was such horrible management by Carley that the board felt that leaking was the only way to get HP back to a productive mode. That leads to the next suggestion.
8. Better management. If Carley wasn't an idiot that was destroying the company, why would board members want to hurt her feelings and leak about her outster? Maybe Carley was the wrong person for the job and was so horrible that the board members felt so helpless and hurt that they wanted to send a signal to the next CEO.