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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff
He really was very rude. I started driving to London at 8am this morning and walked from Earl's Court to Olympia because the underground was only every 30 minutes and I would have been 2 minutes late if I waited for the train. I literally shed blood today to make sure I arrived on time out of respect, the blisters on my feet are horrendous and I have Lederhose Disease in my right foot.
Kent lives in London and shows up 30 minutes late. There is no excuse for that, it was disrespectful of the BBC who were covering the ITSec event and therefore had a pretty busy schedule.
I could go on and on about his general attitude, the fact that pretty much every answer he gave to the BBC presenter was about Google etc. being evil and logging everything we do, irrespective what the question was that he was actually being asked. He referred to me countless times as a "scaremonger" "anti commerce" "paranoid" and a host of other personal attacks.
We were asked to turn our phones off just before they started shooting. I didn't do anything so Kent repeated it to me and I explain I have no cell phone. He laughed and I explained I cancelled my cell phone at Christmas as I wasn't happy with the changes to RIPA in October which require cell companies to log and retain more details on cell phone usage. So he kept bringing this up in the interview too, with comments like "how can you listen to a person who cancelled his cell phone because he doesn't like being spied on." I was forced to explain to Kent that actually, it has nothing to do with being spied on and that my decision to cancel my cell phone after 8 years was a political one. But still he kept bringing it up until Dan Simmons had to eventually step out from behind the camera and tell him to stop.
I wish there had been a live audience, I really do, his behaviour was appalling.
Alexander Hanff
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Wow. What an a**hole. I'm usually prepared to give people the benefit of the doubt, but he really does sound like an unpleasant character. And this is the sort of person VM want us to trust to only intercept our data "anonymously"?
On the upside, perhaps this inexcusable behaviour on his part is a symptom that his business is falling down around his ears? (I believe he has a lot of money personally tied-up in Phorm, so if he's feeling vulnerable, maybe he's showing it...?)