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August 25, 2006

security

I know something you don’t know

Posted Aug. 25, ’06, 5:32 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Security

George Ou It’s a daily soap opera and I’m sure you’re all very, very tired of hearing about it. I thought the Daring Fireball piece from two days ago would shut people up until Maynor and Ellch actually came forward and said something definitively (other than fantasize about inflicting bodily harm on people because of Apple advertising).

Instead, we get an outright personal attack on Gruber by George Ou (you might remember that I’ve already found his writing lacking in insight). He doesn’t go it alone, invoking “a very smart legal professional”. Scary. Then he drops his all-knowing bomb:

While I know for a fact that Gruber is wrong and doesn’t know what he is talking about since I’m sitting on sensitive information at this point, I’m amazed that you can take Gruber’s own analysis and take it apart and get eerily close to what the truth is.

Don’t tell us George. You’re obviously having too much fun attacking Gruber. I’m really glad you took the high road. I’ll save you inane quotes and instead point you at the Crazy Apple Rumors Site response and this quote:

At the end of the day, SecureWorks may be able to demonstrate a hack of Airport. I suspect there’s smoke coming out of that super-secret treefort right now and it’s not from the vigorous self-gratification to the Farah Fawcett poster. But until someone puts up or shuts up, a responsible journalist would not make ham-handed efforts to brow-beat others into silence with vague threats of lightning bolts from Mt. Olympus.


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