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While this may be a left-hand doesn't know what the right-hand is doing kind of thing, I don't think this is good. It gets very tricky when companies try to be
by davidu 16y ago
While this may be a left-hand doesn't know what the right-hand is doing kind of thing, I don't think this is good.
It gets very tricky when companies try to be the arms dealers to both sides. You can't advocate privacy and provide privacy tools while at the same time promoting analytics and data-mining tools used because of a lack of privacy. Ultimately, the two sides conflict and the end result is often bad for both sides.
Case in point -- IronPort used to be a company selling spam cannons, and then they started selling anti-spam devices. They quickly realized they had to stop selling the spam cannons if they wanted to be perceived as the anti-spam vendor of choice.