[recoiledsnake]

It's worse than that. The whole article was a fluff piece rambling about his awesome credentials and comparing the discovery to the discovery of Sony's rootkit and was written to create hype rather than show concrete evidence. And why needlessly break the article into two parts except to garner page hits?

The money quote:

>The findings are false-positive proof since I have used the tool that discovered it for six years now and I am yet to see it misidentify an item throughout the years.

It boggles the mind how a founder of security consulting company can be so clueless. But most of HN and the tech news site like Slashdot fell for this with completely knee-jerk reactions, so I guess I am not surprised and the people behind his fiasco got the publicity they wanted. And remember HB Gary?

I am sure this hoopla would've cost Samsung some real damage in sales and they might be considering legal action. As Churchill said:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

Well, atleast I can say I called it, even after the so called Samsung confirmation. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389141