At a glance, looks about 75% accurate for me. But what really freaked me out is that it correctly flagged a financial institution (not a major one) where I have an account yet feel pretty sure I haven't visited the website in months.
Yeah, part of the nice/scary thing about HSTS is that it is a highly persistent cache. The browser is reluctant to clear it because it's a security feature. So HSTS pins can be stored for up to a year in FF/Chrome, even if you are deleting cookies regularly.
you can hire a very very good patent litigator for $700 an hour. Some big names charge as much as $1000 but I know of no one who charges anything close to $2000. my rate as a fifth year associate at a 'top' firm varies a little by case and client but is generally around $500.
I was thinking that, and the $2k/hour does seem high on the estimate side, but consider how many people may have been on the case.
A colleague was telling me a story of using an area firm to collect a debt, and complained about the billing. Their attorneys were >$200/hour, and they'd often do 'status update' phone calls with more than one attorney on the line. My colleague just grimaced on these calls doing mental accounting of ... "well, that was a $600 call.... there was an $800 call, etc".
If there were, say, 3 people doing some work at... $250/hr, $600k can still go pretty fast (definitely less than 6 months of part time work).
Patent trolls usually have lawyers working on contingency fee basis. The lawyers take most of the risk ... the troll has very few costs. In comparison the defendants usually rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in discovery costs (because, unlike shell company trolls, they have lots of records).
he may have gotten a deal that includes other podcasters ... at the very least he fought the troll until it gave up and made statements suggesting it wouldn't sue other podcasters ... I'm inclined to give the guy the benefit of the doubt for now ... huge risks and expense with continuing litigation after a walk-away deal has been offered
