Thursday, January 13, 2005

more from crazyworld

f-secure's blog had 2 good links showing both supposed sides of the guillermito vs. tegam issue...

tegam's press release described their displeasure at having their company violently depreciated (violently? ok, maybe thats just a translation thing, but they're obviously trying to appeal to our emotions rather than logic) for years and how a hardheaded search for vulnerabilities (what might otherwise be called persistence) is somehow wrong and unfair and that other companies don't get treated that way (even though they do - one need only look as far as invircible and it's creator zvi netiv for an example of that; martin overton's chekmate didn't escape notice either, and there are plenty more examples)...

guillermito's side seems reasonably well laid out and unmired by marketing double-talk, along with examples (scanned full page advertisements) of tegam claiming he was a terrorist and that the FBI was looking for him...

tegam's press release suggests they're upset at the negative publicity guillermito has caused them, that it's hurt their public image, and yet they are the ones making false terrorist accusations... their legal complaint against guillermito doesn't seem to contest the validity of his claims, it only charges that he reverse engineered their product in a way that was not legal... you'd think if guillermito's claims about their software was false and that it hurt their reputation so much that there would be some sort of charge of defamation or something... i suppose guillermito must have a strong defence against such a defamation charge (like his claims being the truth)...

tegam - stop being such petulant children and take responsibility for your failures...

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