Nickname: long-suffering stockholder

Review: The elevation of Hackborn is hardly reassuring. Hackborn was the hack who selected Carly Fiorina to lead HP into stagnation. I'd prefer a leader who wasn't as susceptible women.

Date reviewed: Sep 15, 2006 3:17 PM

Nickname: bk

Review: I believe the IDC analyst is wrong. I, for one, will not purchase anything from HP unless/until they clear the house and put controls in place to ensure this does not happen again. How a company's board works, how it behaves, and the cultural tone it sets goes to the heart of what the company is and what the company believes in. Spying on the personal phone records of the board members, reporters, and employees leaves the ethics line so far behind it's not visible!

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 8:32 PM

Nickname: skippy

Review: Condoning invasion of privacy? Congress is in the midst of making these practices illegal. Reporters should be a protected group in their watchdog role we all benefit from. This is disgusting. Leaders not knowing what is going on in there organizations. This is pathetic. Heads should role from the top down.

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 6:35 PM

Nickname: ungalaway

Review: Insane.

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 3:08 PM

Nickname: Tulsa

Review: Directors have a duty to withold important information especiallly in an age where everybody wants to inform others. H-P did the right thing after noone came forward and admitted they were responsible for the leaks. The problem I have is the public money now spent due in large part to Perkins influence in government over the current California attorney general. Anyone stop to think if maybe there were more important crimes being committed. Money = Influence. Lastly, the resume of Keyworth should indicate that the guy should have known better. He is in the "secret" business.

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 2:42 PM

Nickname: moabking

Review: I believe that the leaks were wrong and should have been investigated--but above board. However, HP has a track record even in their own products of underhanded control tactics. For example, most people do not know that their printers have counters that track the number of sheets which go through the printer and at a predetermined number, the printer will stop printing because it will indicate you need to change the cartridge even though it may be 50% full! Every one knows that the cartridge replacement is the most profitable for HP. Ever wonder why?

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 2:18 PM

Nickname: Management Doctor

Review: Apparently, illegally obtaining your board members' personal telephone records isn't smart business after all. But poor Ms. Dunn claims ignorance and shock at the illegal tactics of the "investigators" she hired. Yeah, right. She runs one of the largest high-tech firms in the world and she didn't know that the spies she paid behind her own board members' backs would have to stoop to questionable or illegal practices to access personal phone records? Any scorned boyfriend or girlfriend knows you can't just call up the phone company and get your significant other's cell phone records. I don't know about you, but when I call my cell phone company I have to verify about five sets of information before they will even tell me how much my bill is. Yet one of the "most powerful women in the world" is ignorant of this fact? Please. She is a liar at best and a complete, unethical, unhinged fraud at worst. She disgraces a great company.

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 5:25 AM

Nickname: Michael

Review: In this age when the executive branch of the U.S. government plays fast and loose with the law of the land, the corporate boards must feel empowered to take whatever means necessary to quell a board leak. Wasn't HP's slogan 'Invent'? It seems that when the CEO is asked to explain the unlawful methods used to gain the phone records of board members, she did exactly that.

Date reviewed: Sep 13, 2006 1:03 AM

Nickname: dd

Review: Hackborn is responsible for forcing Lew Platt out and hiring Carly Fiorina and backing her all the way. Hackborn should have resigned long time ago. All the HP board members sat on their hands while Carly drove the company to the ground (Dunn and Perkins were the ones who finally took action). The rest all should leave. HP board is weak. Bring back Walter Hewlett!

Date reviewed: Sep 12, 2006 10:47 PM

Nickname: Wes

Review: HP got caught in an illegal scheme to spy on reporters and its own directors. I for one will think of HP as sleazy. HP should immediately donate $10 million to the ACLU (Americal Civil Liberties Union).

Date reviewed: Sep 12, 2006 10:16 PM