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>If I were in this position, I'd mosey on down to
>the Sales department and make sure the sales force
>knew what was what. There's a difference between
>what's disclosed to the customer and what's written
>down, and Sales can
I think this is ill-advised.
To do this requires the following:
1 An exceptional understand of exactly what it is in the interface that
makes you absolutely positive that the security breach applies to your
product, in the exact situation it is being used, with no possibility that
it isn't addressed by some other means some other place in the application.
2 The mandate from the stakeholder of this product that it falls under your
responsibility.
3 The knowledge that your sources of information that will dry up because
everyone's going to avoid telling you anything for fear that you'll decide
you don't like something for whatever reason and will become that point's
crusader.
4 The knowledge that when they fire your butt for sticking your nose where
it doesn't belong and having customers cancel orders, you will have enough
money saved to handle the long period of unemployment.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
NY: 212-414-6656
Dayton: 732-438-3372
Although she lives with seven other men, she's not easy.
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