OT perhaps, but a wonderful little story none the less. A very similar storm erupted some time ago over a vulnerability in wireless drivers. IIRC and ironically enough, George Ou was involved in that one too (though I think he was actually trying to be one of the good guys).
As to being sloppy, if you carefully read the postings by Ed Bott you might notice that while he has much to say, he appears every bit as given to overstatement and misstatement as he attempts to claim Gutmann is. Gutmann however is at the least very entertaining. The one puzzling aspect of it all, is why it took so long for Bott and Ou to make their noise when Gutmann's paper had been widely distributed (and read) for quite some time prior to the noise machine kicking in. I would be very surprised if the Gutmann paper had not been read by them prior to his more recent talks. Perhaps it was a slow news week. Still, it's like the many stories about the great sales of Vista (apparently 40 million and that quicker than expected) and how people love it etc etc. Yet, Dell have apparently had to make XP available, again, due to customer demand. And Microsoft have now had to extend the shelf (read sales) life of XP by an extra 5 months. So, if Vista is so grand and selling so well, why? Cheers L Roy Britten wrote: > On 25/09/2007, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Unfortunately, Peter Gutmanns credibility has lately ( in my eyes ) been >> blighted somewhat by sloppy and inaccurate research... >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=299 > > In the interests of fairness and presenting both sides of the story, > Peter Gutmann's response to Ed Bott's criticisms is at > http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.txt > > Getting OT, > Roy. >
