Star Vista Vulnerability Report 'Debunked'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jun 2007 13:12 UTC, submitted by shykid
Privacy, Security, Encryption On Full Disclosure, there's a negative analysis of Jeff Jones' six-month vulnerability report. "Conclusions that are drawn are built on a lack of understanding by the Microsoft researcher. I highly encourage him to go back and take another look, and pare down the results to essential information that is absolutely critical to the conclusions, rather than just 'Other OS's have more bugs, see, look at my graphs'."
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PlatformAgnostic
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2006-01-02

And why should we pay attention to his rantings? Just do a quick google search of his name. He seems to be some random Ubuntu dev. I didn't realize that emails from random people on security lists were so authoritative as to debunk anything. If it were some well-known researcher on a low-volume list, I'd see the value in it, but I'd love to be enlightened as to why this guy is important.

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merkoth Member since:
2006-09-22

And why should we pay attention to his rantings? Just do a quick google search of his name. He seems to be some random Ubuntu dev. I didn't realize that emails from random people on security lists were so authoritative as to debunk anything. If it were some well-known researcher on a low-volume list, I'd see the value in it, but I'd love to be enlightened as to why this guy is important.


Kristian Hermansen is a security researcher and developer at Cisco Systems. He spends most of his time hacking around and breaking things. Recently he has been striving to build a massive computational infrastructure based on virtualizing technologies.

A simple Google search pointed to that info located at http://www.ubuntulive.com/cs/ubuntu/view/e_spkr/3455

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