I'm not here to argue that CTS-Labs or Viceroy didn't overstate the vulnerabilities. Surely, Viceroy did! They said the stock was heading for zero!
I'm saying that the inverse argument, that the vulnerabilities are "pedestrian" and not worth making noise about, is at least equally false.
Unfortunately, the day of the announcement, several people trafficked in opinions based on CTS-Labs white paper --- which any skilled reader knew immediately, just from the format, wasn't a technical explanation --- that these vulnerabilities were non-issues. If I see people repeating that notion, I'm going to point out: the equivalent vulnerability in the iPhone platform would be front-page news.
I'm saying that the inverse argument, that the vulnerabilities are "pedestrian" and not worth making noise about, is at least equally false.
Unfortunately, the day of the announcement, several people trafficked in opinions based on CTS-Labs white paper --- which any skilled reader knew immediately, just from the format, wasn't a technical explanation --- that these vulnerabilities were non-issues. If I see people repeating that notion, I'm going to point out: the equivalent vulnerability in the iPhone platform would be front-page news.