Dan Geer
Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and risk management specialist. He is recognized for raising awareness of critical computer and network security issues before the risks were widely understood, and for ground-breaking work on the economics of security.
Geer is currently the chief information security officer for In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in technology to support the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 2003, Geer's 24-page report entitled "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" was released by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). The paper argued that Microsoft's dominance of desktop computer operating systems is a threat to national security. Geer was fired (from consultancy @Stake) the day the report was made public. Geer has cited subsequent changes in the Vista operating system (notably a location-randomization feature) as evidence that Microsoft "accepted the paper."
Geer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a member of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He also received a Sc.D. in biostatistics from Harvard, and has worked for:
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She Comes In Waves
by: Dean GeyerShe'll dive into anything
She's got the golden ring
She's got the moon in her hair
To touch her is permanent
Salt on her satin skin
It's all okay when she's there
I don't want to
But I have to
Leave it all up in the air
When she comes in waves
And then slips away
And I wish she'd stay
But you can't always get what you want
And she comes in waves
Here she comes
She's pretty when she smiles
And it goes on for miles
Finds me wherever I am
Then I wake up alone
Like a bird that has flown
Into something I don't understand
Check the rear-view mirror
Watch it all wash away once again
When she comes in waves
And then slips away
And I wish she'd stay
But you can't always get what you want
And she comes in waves
Don't know what I'm doing
It's pushing and pulling me underneath
It's hard to breathe
And I know that tonight
I'll be thinking it might
Be the last time that she leaves
She's here when she's here, then she's gone
When she comes in waves
And then slips away
And I wish she'd stay
But you can't always get what you want
And she comes in waves
Here she comes
Here she comes