Reading the emerging story about the T-Mobile/Sidekick data loss, I was surprised to discover that this guy isn’t working there. In fact, he’s not even on the West Coast any more, which makes me feel better about all my data.

I have some friends at what used to be Danger, and I know they’ve been working frantically at damage control, but I can only see blood on the walls in this one. Some people screwed up bigtime, years ago, both procedurally and technically, and if the original culprits are gone, their replacements will get axed for not spotting, and removing, the vulnerabilities.

Microsoft can afford the financial hit it’s going to take from this, but the PR hit is devastating. Any product line that says “trust us with your data” is in big trouble.

[why, yes, I did just update and verify my offsite backups; why do you ask?]