Patricia Dunn has already announced that she'll step down from her role as HP's Chairman at the start of '07, in the wake of the pretexting hullabalu that has exploded in the national press over the last week or so. Dunn will apparently remain on the HP board (we'll see if that sticks) and the company is girding itself for a closer look from state and federal authorities. The state of California, for its part, has already begun an investigation and recently announced that it has sufficient evidence to charge HP brass.

Also, since we last checked in on the story, the investigative firm hired by HP's has been outed by the New York Times, Boston-based Security Outsourcing Solutions, although published reports have also indicated that S.O.S. (the irony) hired subcontractors to do the actual impersonating...

-- MDT

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