Comments on: Another Storm Worm Update http://www.sudosecure.net/archives/59 is anything truly secure... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:05:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: jeremy http://www.sudosecure.net/archives/59#comment-20 jeremy Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:28:23 +0000 http://www.sudosecure.net/?p=59#comment-20 Yea, you could very well be right, as we all have been taken out of context in one way or another at some point in time. This could very well be the misfortune of Jimmy Kuo being quoted by Gregg Keizer without portraying the true context of the message that Jimmy Kuo intended. This type of one sided reporting has become almost the standard in today’s media coverage. Thanks for the feedback TeMerc! Yea, you could very well be right, as we all have been taken out of context in one way or another at some point in time. This could very well be the misfortune of Jimmy Kuo being quoted by Gregg Keizer without portraying the true context of the message that Jimmy Kuo intended. This type of one sided reporting has become almost the standard in today’s media coverage. Thanks for the feedback TeMerc!

]]> By: TeMerc http://www.sudosecure.net/archives/59#comment-18 TeMerc Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:50:06 +0000 http://www.sudosecure.net/?p=59#comment-18 From that InfoWorld write up, which it would appear everyone is glossing over: <i>But while Kuo was happy to take the credit on behalf of Microsoft for shrinking Storm, he was realistic about the overall impact. "What we did was to drive them [the Storm bot herders] elsewhere," he said. "They're probably out there still making money with some other botnet."</i> So I don't see it so much as MS claiming they did much of anything all too significant, but I guess that's just me. From that InfoWorld write up, which it would appear everyone is glossing over:
But while Kuo was happy to take the credit on behalf of Microsoft for shrinking Storm, he was realistic about the overall impact.

“What we did was to drive them [the Storm bot herders] elsewhere,” he said. “They’re probably out there still making money with some other botnet.”

So I don’t see it so much as MS claiming they did much of anything all too significant, but I guess that’s just me.

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