This NWN article is just full of hot air and not much real substance at all sorry; her Twitter account is more interesting. And security experts - well, everybody can claim to be one. It's not like it's something you need to get certified first with or have to study at all.
Real security experts have to work hard to earn a good reputation, like
Bruce Schneier,
Tavis Ormandy or
Daniel J. Bernstein. Those three are well renowned, heavy weights in the field of security expertise.
But I've only got to look at her Twitter badge, where it shows this:
OMFG, so much cyber cyber cyber... every security expert who wants to be taken seriously by his own industry avoids that word at any cost, because "cyber" is just being used by politicians and other people who've got no clue what they're talking about, like a blind born man talking about colors. Calling yourself a "cyber security expert" just makes you the laughing stock of your industiy, nothing else.
Reading her papers reveals that she was more acting like some kind of legal advisor on operational and privacy questions than a security expert looking for security issues.
First and foremost it happens every day that some employers and their employees simply put don't match together very well. Hire and fire. Reading through the papers the impression to me is that she never really fit well into the working environment of Linden Lab due to uncertain reasons; and now she's blaming Linden Lab for that. For this it takes two, and in the end it's for the court to figure out the truth if she indeed was facing racism, or not.
She's also right now playing heavily on the discriminated victim card right now: female, Indian and muslim and made her law suit public, which is normally uncommon. If she were instead a white, protestant American, the publicity would be much, much lower.
I guess this is a tactic to motivate Linden Lab to avoid further bad press, and pay her a nice compensation instead of fighting it out before the court - if the case is going to be accepted, that is.
Well, we're going to see how this in the end is going to turn out in a few months probably.