Of course it is reputable. Its on blogspot, a free web host known for exclusivity and high standards.
Blogspot is well known for some of the highest quality software(1) and adult paradigm-shifting(2) link sites on the planet.
Blogspot, along with Errata Security(3), provides only the highest of high quality security(4) information. After all, the tagline is "Errata Security is a high-end cyber security consulting company."
>Of course it is reputable. Its on blogspot, a free web host known for exclusivity and high standards.
Robert Graham, aka ErrataRob, is well-known and well-respected in the information security industry.
Although you obviously wouldn't know this just from his Blogspot subdomain (and I agree he should probably just register an actual domain name), his content should also stand on its own merit.
There is a lot of crap code on Github and there are a lot of idiots on Twitter, but you shouldn't discount all users of a service because of the quality of some of its users.
> We shouldn't be surprised by this backdoor, ... And researchers will not probably hunt for similar JTAG backdoors in other chips.
Ya. He sounds real thorough, too.
> ...[the problem] we should insist on fixing it.
Wait, I was under the impression that no backdoors exist and even if it did, everyone does it, anyway, like the author claims.
> ... there are a lot of idiots on Twitter ...
Don't forget blogspot and HN. This site isn't just for editorials from Forbes and the New York Times after all, it also features lots of PR from Techcrunch and kickstarter. ;)
Questioning the author's reputation rather than the information itself as the grandparent post does is ad-hominem. The article deals with standard practices in a large industry and it probably wouldn't be hard to obtain confirmation or refutation of any factual claims in it.
The parent post is even more problematic; it's implying that the information in the article is low-quality because it's hosted on a service on which other people host shady software and pornography.
