ext_114167 ([identity profile] genesayssitdown.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2013-05-17 07:22 am
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Jon Monsarrat brings “General Electric and Citigroup Power” to Expose Cyberbullies

Posted May 17th, 2012:

"Cambridge, MA ( prsync ) May 17, 2013 - Jon Monsarrat is bring the same consulting services to fight cybercrime that he has used to advise top executives from General Electric and Citigroup. Through previous consulting jobs, he helped executives at GE Trade put together an import / export offset program to help them make sales worldwide. And for Citigroup he worked to design for them an "active bank system". Now he is bringing that power to expose cyberbullies, with a twist: two new patented technologies. The previous press release "Jon Monsarrat, $160 Million DotCom Icon, to Expose 100 Cyberbullies" dated May 8, 2013, was sent out with incorrect information. First, due to a miscommunication when the press release was being written, the venture is not part of Monsarrat's Hard Data Factory, and Rickland Powel l is not a contact. Instead the service is part of Monsarrat Consulting, his private consulting practice, and does not involve Rickland Powell. Second, due to a separate miscommunication, the press release stated that the new venture launched with partnerships. That was in error. The new venture does not launch with any partnerships."

Read the full press release here: http://prsync.com/monsarrat/jon-monsarrat-brings-general-electric-and-citigroup-power-to-expose-cyberbullies-542401/

[identity profile] lheena.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It is very weird to me that he's apparently fallen into a way-back machine and has a website from 2003 where he's offering to simultaneously identify anonymous cyber bullies and do general IT on office computers.

One side of it's an incredibly difficult, profitable business that he may or may not be going about in the wrong way*, and the other side is... Have you tried turning it off and on again?

* I have no knowledge of the efficacy of Monserrat Consulting's Cyber Investigation consulting arm, and am in no way making a statement about it, just the dichotomy of the two offerings.

[identity profile] mfinnigan.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
And look at what they're hiring for:
We are seeking people with IT skills in: (http://monsarrat.com/careers.html)
Operating systems: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Solaris, MacOS, VAX/VMS.
Security: VNC, PcAnywhere
Edited 2013-05-17 16:19 (UTC)

[identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com 2013-05-17 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I have some experience with punch cards and rotary phones.
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[personal profile] pauamma 2013-05-18 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Interview question: which IBM 360 operating systems support an equivalent of brk(2), and when and how do you use it?

[identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com 2013-05-18 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say "handcrank phones and Edison cylinders" ...
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[personal profile] pauamma 2013-05-18 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
OW! YOU HURTED MY FEE-FEES!

[identity profile] pywaket.livejournal.com 2013-05-18 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Sue them for eleventy gazillion dollars!!!!
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[personal profile] cos 2013-05-18 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
If you make some progress and get to EBCDIC, teletypewriters, and IBM 360, you could get a job in the airline industry :)

[identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com 2013-05-18 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
EBCDIC! I remember that ... it was already obsolete when I took assembler in the early 80s.