Tom is the CEO and co-founder of Centrify Corporation, a software and cloud security provider that delivers unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile.
The target of the criticism then files a frivolous lawsuit just so they can issue a subpoena to the Web site or Internet Service Provider (ISP) involved, discover the identity of their anonymous critic, and intimidate or silence them.
The e-mails, and the identity of their senders, were passed on to Malaysian police by a compliant ISP (Internet service provider), but Malaysians continued to use the Web as their only way of bypassing the government-controlled print media.