Sermo Malifer wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Friday 30 January 2009 13:35 : \____
>>
>>>
>>> Microsofts Security Evangelist Jeff Jones was caught providing
>>> doctored statistics about IE and Firefox, claiming IE was *better*
>>>
>>> Here is the breakdown of what really is the issue
>>>
>>>
>>
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/01/blogfight_the_truth_about_ie_v.html
>>
>> Jeff Jones is a dunce <
>> http://boycottnovell.com/2007/12/03/firefox-fud-latest/
>>> whose output needs to be embargoed.
>>
>> He knows he's lying, but he's paid to do that.
>>
>> His class has the parity of Exxon-funded global warning deniers.
>
> "In contrast, Jones appears to arrive at 285 days of vulnerability for
> Firefox by focusing exclusively on flaws that were considered by Mozilla
> and other security experts to be far less severe."
>
> I don't see any outright lying here, just a difference of opinion.
The analysis he was answering to (about IE flaws) had only serious
security flaws taken into account.
He either shares the wintendo users inability to read and understand
rather simple things (which is abundantly shown in COLA) or he was quite
disengenious, if not to say, outright dishonest
--
The chief cause of problems is solutions
|
|
