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I'm sorry that national governments don't agree with your claim of "common sense" investigation. If common sense were enough to protect something that would be vital to national security interests, then the year-long individual investigation of each government worker vetted to view such national documents would be unnecessary. Sadly, such investigations are the order of the day.

Now, in that path of reasoning: since governments employ background investigations, drug tests, polygraphs, and family history investigation for assurance and have done so for the better part of a half-century, such activity sets the legal standard for diligent protection of national security secrets. The higher the level of protection desired, the deeper the investigation need to view the documents.

Microsoft's Allchin made a claim of the need to protect the code from viewing in the interests of national security. He did so under oath, and through him Microsoft set the level of protection the code required, ie: Secret. Therefore, any vetting process for MVPs less complete than the precedent setting government process for Secret clearance would not constitute due diligence on Microsoft's part.

QED.

(As for your opening? You must realize that you opened that kettle of worms of yourself. Implicit claims are equally proper argumentative fodder as explicit claims. You made an implicit claim of personal experience with the MVP process, when you said I must "trust you" that vetting in MVP "was a VERY long process that took months (almost a year)". By claiming I need to "trust you"; you indicate that you have relevant undocumented personal experience, else you would have cited documentary evidence for your claim and asked me to trust that. If you give a false impression by claiming false authority, then you certainly cannot blame your audience for countering the argument based on your implicit claim. Don't be disingenuous. You knew you were making an implicit claim.)
Posted by: John Le'Brecage   Posted on: 10/23/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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