Considering Chrome had a last minuite patch applied http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/06/last-minute-pre-p... It's good to know it still got taken down, because I had a horrible fear they where going to try and advertise they were 100% safe because they weren't exploited.
There's no last minute patch. We push security and stability updates every 2-3 weeks. Just go look at our release history to verify. As for your other claim, it's so absurdly off base that it doesn't warrant an explicit response.
However the time of the conference could easily give a vendor that had a compatable release cycle a slight edge.
When I read that story (before hearing the results) I was filled with a kind of dread, I am less than impressed about the claims for Chrome OS, in the UK where its advertised it strikes me as Apple during the bad days who simply advocated bad pratice with regards to security (you've bought us, don't worry) type thing.
If you feel that is at all unfair to you, I am sorry, but Google Chrome has been an agressively marketed product in London and I have general contempt for most of the adds (but then I'm not the target market).
I also think its really important to remind people just how unsafe browsers are (all of them) and how people need to be increasingly aware of the impact such security.
Side Note: If your one of the team, thanks, yours has been my favourite browser for years now :)