[Dailydave] How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers

[Daniel]

Tell me George, if you owned a mega corporation and you had two  
researchers threatening to drop a few % from your share price, what  
would you do? Open up your arms, give them a free macbook and see  
millions lost on the FTSE/Nasdaq?

hardly.....

Apple's PR protected the brand, same as Bush protected his brand and  
Billy G protected his brand. This is business 101 and it's time for  
security and security researchers to realise the golden years are  
long gone in todays litigation market. I can't just walk into Ford  
and say that all american cars are crap, blow up and kill people  
without expecting some force, so why do researchers think they can  
get away with it with this "we are protecting the world" approach?

It should have been handled better by both sides, including Maynor  
and co. Lets hope everyone learnt the lesson, but then again...




On 20 Mar 2007, at 16:14, George Ou wrote:

> How Apple orchestrated web attack on researchers
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=451
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=451
>
>
> Here's the real story of what went down at Blackhat last summer  
> with the
> MacBook Wi-Fi scandal.  Sorry if this has been beaten to death, but  
> shows
> you what length Apple would go to and try to destroy the reputation  
> of two
> security researchers.  Emails from Apple PR Director Lynn Fox is  
> included as
> evidence.
>
>
> George Ou
>
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