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Re: *electronic* Portfolios and writing samples...
Subject:Re: *electronic* Portfolios and writing samples... From:"Higgins, Lisa" <LHiggins -at- CARRIERACCESS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:22:47 -0600
> The lack of control in having samples hanging out on the web
> for download,
> aside from the website itself, of course, would make me
> nervous.
You could just try to keep your samples small enough that they won't do
anyone any real good out of context.
> (Obviously, this won't
> keep real hackers out, but who cares.)
I started to laugh at the absurdity of hackers breaking into tech writers'
websites to steal their work samples, but then I remembered that I think the
first time Kevin Mitnick went to jail was for stealing some really stupid
procedural manual that they valued at SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS. (And yes, it
was stupid. I read it. STUPID STUPID STUPID.)
I figure we should be able to take it to court and value our work at
eleventy-bajillion dollars a page when a someone steals from us. When some
big company gets hacked, they don't dispute that our work is just impossibly
precious.
