"Jon Ellch was one of the presenters of the now infamous 'faux disclosure' at Black Hat and DEFCON last month. Ellch and co-presenter Dave Maynor have gone silent since then, fueling speculation that the entire presentation may have been a hoax. Ellch finally broke the silence in an email to the Daily Dave security mailing list over the weekend, and one thing is clear: he is chafing under the cone of silence which has been placed over the two of them."
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Member since:2005-11-13
This guy is full of it. Just because someone uses a Mac does not mean they don't have the knowledge to understand the explanation.
I think people are taking what he is saying out of context, I don't think he meant the mac community specifically but something more along the lines of everyday users who are not technically involved enough with the subject to really grasp what he is talking about.
The group of people he is talking about are on any platform, the non tech users.
Member since:2006-03-06
I think people are taking what he is saying out of context, I don't think he meant the mac community specifically but something more along the lines of everyday users who are not technically involved enough with the subject to really grasp what he is talking about.
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Would that include the audience watching this "big news" on public television channels ?
If so - why then go on public-TV with it ? - and in addition to that - why NOT answering ANY questions from the tech-skilled people ?
Is this more than a mere and simple PR stunt ?
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2005-07-06
This guy is full of it. Just because someone uses a Mac does not mean they don't have the knowledge to understand the explanation. I think if he really had one he would have given it. It has been my experience that the ratio of people able to understand this sort of thing is pretty constant regardless of OS. The only reason you would have less people of the OS X or Linux persuasion is because you have fewer people using them. But it does make a nice smokescreen to say the intended target is not capable of understanding the details.