About Us

About Us

SemiAccurate is a technology news site focusing not just on the new shiny stuff but the how and why behind the technology we use. We cover a wide spectrum of topics from hardware reviews, theoretical technology, production, security, and enterprise products.

Disclosure and Explanation: To help our readers understand the workings of SemiAccurate and in preparation of new FTC rules we would like to explain how S|A is designed. We are based upon old fashioned journalism with original news and original sources. To allow our freelancers and employees the ability to investigate a story we have a hard separation between the business side of the company and the writing/editing side.

Employees who deal with the business side of things for the company, advertising, accounting, and any other legal paperwork may not write content about any company they deal with on the business end. These employees have no control over the publication or writing of stories. Our other writers and editors are allowed to write what they wish as long as it meets S|A requirements:

1. The author feels it is true to the best of the author's knowledge at the time of publication. 2. The author has the knowledge and experience to comment on the subject in a way that adds value to the story, topic or discussion. 3. The author and editor give any company written about in our pages the opportunity to comment and have their comment published as an update to an original article, separate article, or other notification. The choice will be at SemiAccurate's discretion.

None of the owners of the parent company of S|A own any stock, including any technology stock. Their corporate ownership is, as of October 2009, limited to the parent company to S|A.

S|A does not control their freelancers or writers as to what is done with samples given for review. The past history has been a mix of samples sent back to companies and samples that the company has not provided return shipping for, but may do so at a later date.

To be updated as we gain a legal opinion as to our duties regarding these new regulations.

John Murphy is currently an IT Manager at Dow Jones working in the Market Data Group. He has over fifteen years experience in Software Engineering, Architecture and Management Roles. John specializes in the design and development of distributed high performance high availability back office systems that process real time streaming market data. John has worked on systems that drive several large financial news sites including MarketWatch.com and WSJ.com. John interests include Open Source Software, building effective software development teams, and programming languages. He can be reached at murphybytes at that infamous gmail address.

Somewhere along the lines, Dave developed a passion for collecting processors built by both Intel and AMD, and has hundreds of chips ranging from original Intel 4004’s all the way up through today’s latest and greatest chips. Contrary to popular belief, Dave has seen a girl… once. www.avxmedia.com

Lars-Göran Nilsson started his career in the technology writing business at PCW in the UK, although he’d been working in the tech business for several years prior to making the move to write about technology. He helped start TrustedReviews and had a short spell at RegHardware. He’s also worked for various other technology publications such as Fudzilla, TweakTown and Pocket-lint. He’s currently a freelance writer residing in Taiwan, although as the name gives away, he’s originally from Sweden. Lars-Göran is interested in just about anything technology related and tries to keep up with what goes on at the technology companies in Taiwan.

Leticia Smith is a security consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has covered technology news since 1995, serving as technical editor for CMP’s NetGuide Live, EE Times and running an industry website; Embedded.com for six years.

While running an FTP site allowing embedded engineers to exchange code, she developed an interest in security and forensics which she maintains today.

For the past seven years, Leticia has been focused on security and risk management. Her clients include the largest HMO in the United States. Project work includes offshore management, and CMMI and BS7799 (ISO17799) certifications for all of the offshore facilities. She has managed SOX compliance for a large public company, using the COBIT controls, and has participated in various other quality certifications and audits. Recently, she has managed security programs for process control networks serving critical infrastructure as well as a variety of governmental entities.

She is an expert in developing metrics programs that enable management to accurately demonstrate that they are providing true value delivery and business process improvement.

Leticia has held a CISSP in good standing since 2005. She is an expert in the NIST 800 standards, the ITIL business process improvement framework, as well as PCI and HIPAA compliance requirements. Leticia enjoys travel and teaching English as a Second Language, holding a certification from Cambridge University. Leticia at semiaccurate.com

Larry Suto is an independent consultant who has consulted for companies such as Wells Fargo, Pepsico, Kaiser Permanante, Charles Schwab and Cisco during his time with Strategic Data Command Inc. based in Oakland, CA. He specializes in enterprise security architecture, risk management, software quality analysis from a security perspective and RF security. Larry has been active in the industry for over twelve years and has worked with many Fortune 500 companies around the country. Recently his research has included introducing software testing and quality assurance techniques into the security engineering process in order to understand how the effectiveness of security tools and processes can be measured with more accurate and quantifiable metrics.

Larry can be reached at larry.suto at the infamous gmail.com

Luis Silva is the pen name of a young banker based in South America. While he works as a banker he is also a geek. He writes whenever the weather allows and his targets for the month aren't too distant.

Rodney Thayer He spends his work time testing and breaking things so enterprises can operate safer on the Internet. He used to be a protocol and crypto implementor before he went over to the dark site and became press.

Alexander Saint Croix is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, and can be credited with designing the graphics and logo for semiaccurate.com. In stark contrast to his graphic design and writing background, his current studies focus on distributed reputation management algorithms for social networks, as well as building instruments for network analytics and information visualization. Alex works at the University of Minnesota as a Network Analyst.