Dan Geer - Definition and Overview

Dan Geer is a former computer security consultant for @stake, a company cooperating with Microsoft. He published a 2003 paper arguing that Microsoft was a monoculture; he was later fired.

The 24 page report entitled CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly (http://www.ccianet.org/papers/cyberinsecurity.pdf) was released by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA (http://www.ccianet.org/)) which made the argument that Microsoft is a threat to national security.

Geer has a Ph.D. in biostatistics, from Harvard.

He worked for

• Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard School of Public Health
• Project Athena, MIT
• Digital Equipment Corporation
• Geer Zolot & Associates
• OpenVision Technologies
• Open Market
• Certco

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.