[cddotdotslash]

Bear with me here, but what if this entire thing was engineered from the beginning to be a marketing technique? The videos themselves? Marketing. The "we got a cease and desist from a big company" blog? Marketing. The follow-up letter about transparency? Marketing. And it all falls right into the David vs. Goliath story that the tech community loves.

[drakenot]

Are you saying the cease and desist is potentially fabricated?

That seems unlikely given if that were true, we would expect a public response from Palo Alto to that effect?

That isn’t a ploy that would work very long and the backlash and damaged reputation would be significant if that occurred.

[cddotdotslash]

No, not fabricated at all. I'm suggesting that they had to know that what they were doing would provoke a response from PAN. And as soon as it did, a nice "underdog" blog post was ready to go.