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Final thoughts on Ubiquiti

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Re: Final thoughts on Ubiquiti

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Post by cronofdoom »

Operyl wrote: post #2

Jeez, I was certain at this point he would never retract his articles. I feel like it's too little too late, imo, though.

Funny, I was feeling the exact opposite. They could have just taken down the articles and issued no statement. It is hard to publicly admit that you're wrong and it's good to see they took that step.

Re: Final thoughts on Ubiquiti

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Post by acoard »

An accurate but pretty lacklustre "mea culpa" and retraction. I don't mind people making mistakes, everyone does, but seeing how Krebs has handled this whole episode has not inspired optimism in how he'll handle future mistakes.

He was essentially used as an unwitting party in a cyber blackmail scheme, and he doesn't touch on that at all. There will continue to be nefarious parties trying to misuse his reputation, so long as he remains a popular cyber researcher. I wish he would show consciousness of that rather than simply saying "I was wrong."

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Post by blitzar »

cronofdoom wrote: post #5
Operyl wrote: post #2

Jeez, I was certain at this point he would never retract his articles. I feel like it's too little too late, imo, though.

Funny, I was feeling the exact opposite. They could have just taken down the articles and issued no statement. It is hard to publicly admit that you're wrong and it's good to see they took that step.

> They could have just taken down the articles and issued no statement.

There are people that came bottom of their class and barely qualified yesterday to practice law who easily would have been able to make this not an option.

Re: Final thoughts on Ubiquiti

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Post by selectodude »

cronofdoom wrote: post #5
Operyl wrote: post #2

Jeez, I was certain at this point he would never retract his articles. I feel like it's too little too late, imo, though.

Funny, I was feeling the exact opposite. They could have just taken down the articles and issued no statement. It is hard to publicly admit that you're wrong and it's good to see they took that step.

I imagine a public retraction was part of a settlement with Ubiquiti.

Re: Final thoughts on Ubiquiti

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Post by Pharaoh2 »

CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #7

I don’t see this post when I go to https://krebsonsecurity.com/ , at least on iOS Safari. Also, on the home page, when I scroll down to the list of all posts, I don’t see this one. Edit: It’s there now! Thanks to u/Pharaoh2 for the heads-up.

I see it there
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