Comments on: A better analogy

The David Maynor saga, one year later.

[monkyhead]

And then...

And then he ate the restaurant!

[The Real John Muir]

Survivalist?

Ah the Maynor & Ellch MacBook wifi saga, brings back memories of the old '06 so it does. Never again would the world ignore a storm within a teacup quite as numbskulled and cack handed as that. Well until the Groobs actually whapped out his alphabetic Frog savant only for it to turn out to be none other than the Hypnotoad!

I like how Gruber linked that picture of the leading man's home office, which is in fact a fine little conspiratorial whackjob arsenal. Maybe the sight of that put him off any frontal rhetorical attack.

[ripragged]

No preference

Gruber's analogy and yours are both close to what I saw. From the perspective of an end user who just wants to be confident that his computer is reasonably secure, neither of them quite captures the reality.

The item or object isn't just a curiosity; it is a potential tool for an active and malignant community. It also calls into question, without a shred of evidence, the safety and security of the curious.

I liken it to a man meritlessly accused of sexual harassment or child molestation. The moment the accusation is made, the man is guilty until he proves his innocence; even then he will wear the taint of the accusation forever. That is what David Maynor tried to do to OS X.

The fact that Maynor let the whole thing sit for almost a year before publishing his explanation is fishy, which makes his explanation equally fishy. I don't know enough about the mechanics of hacking to speak intelligently about it. I do recognize chest thumping, obfuscating, finger pointing, and backpedaling though. That's what Maynor's report looks like from here.

[Marc Salzberg]

It's very interesting..

that the 'crazy uncle' has been silent on the subject, even though it would
bring his hit count up.