[identity profile] genesayssitdown.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
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/

Date: 2013-05-17 01:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] blk
oh look, monsarrat.com got a whole new facelift! Now with all new classic stock photos!

Date: 2013-05-17 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lheena.livejournal.com
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.

Date: 2013-05-17 04:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mfinnigan.livejournal.com
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 Date: 2013-05-17 04:19 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-05-17 04:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com
I have some experience with punch cards and rotary phones.

Date: 2013-05-18 02:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pauamma
Interview question: which IBM 360 operating systems support an equivalent of brk(2), and when and how do you use it?

Date: 2013-05-18 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com
I didn't say "handcrank phones and Edison cylinders" ...

Date: 2013-05-18 03:16 pm (UTC)
pauamma: Cartooney crab wearing hot pink and acid green facemask holding drink with straw (Default)
From: [personal profile] pauamma
OW! YOU HURTED MY FEE-FEES!

Date: 2013-05-18 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pywaket.livejournal.com
Sue them for eleventy gazillion dollars!!!!

Date: 2013-05-18 02:46 pm (UTC)
cos: (frff-profile)
From: [personal profile] cos
If you make some progress and get to EBCDIC, teletypewriters, and IBM 360, you could get a job in the airline industry :)

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

Date: 2013-05-17 02:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] srakkt.livejournal.com
I wonder if there are Mass laws against operating as an unlicensed private detective, and what might trigger them.

Date: 2013-05-17 04:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
IANAL, but somebody on UHub pointed out that, yes, you do need to be licensed as a P.I. in the state, but whether or not you violate the law seems pretty heavily dependent on how much information you collect, where it's used (i.e. privately or in court), what jurisdiction it's used in, and how it's used.

The main problem boils down to the fact that each state has different licensing requirements, and I'm not really sure how P.I. licensing handles jurisdictional challenges like this.

Date: 2013-05-17 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com
WOW! finally, a consulting firm that will provide my lawyer's mailing address for me!

I just now made the connection that, since JonMon's lawyer's "office" "address" is a UPS Store, JonMon probably rented the UPS Box for him.

And he can do it for YOU, TOO!

Date: 2013-05-17 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
If I'm reading that last correctly, he means that he will rent a P.O. Box to collect official mail so you can't be found through your lawyer. A mail drop, in other words.

Date: 2013-05-17 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marius23.livejournal.com
Too amusing not to report

My company has a, shall we say, questionable automatic Web URL Access Filter. For some unknown reason it classifies monsarrat.com as Pornography....

Date: 2013-05-17 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com
Interesting. I wonder why...

Date: 2013-05-17 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freckles42.livejournal.com
I'm gonna go with "mons" being problematic. :D

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