From: "Randy" 

Coming from Dvorak, who posted under a pseudonym back in CIS:CANOPUS
floating some gibberish about a middle-management putzch at IBM--well, you
will excuse me if I find his rant just a little disingenuous...

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:42b75f63$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Let's see -  a MS MVP 'discovers'  security concerns with BitTorrent while
> MS publishes a research paper outlining a 'new' file sharing technology
> similar to BitTorrent. Coincidence? Yeah right!!
>
> Her's a portion of Dvorak's article
>
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1829724,00.asp
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1829725,00.asp
>
> The Scheme to Discredit BitTorrent
> The Root of the Accusations. This was all begun by a Microsoft MVP
> character named Chris Boyd, who is always described as a "renowned"
> security expert. By whose standards is he renowned? Has he written books?
> Academic papers? Articles? What exactly besides blogging? So where does
> this assertion come from? The blog?
>
> He posted his BitTorrent discovery on his security blog here. He
> discovered that the Aurora spyware is on machines that also have
> BitTorrent installed and implies that BitTorrent has more to do with it
> than a casual coincidence. Does this guy know that BitTorrent is a
> downloading system and people who do a lot of downloading tend to have it
> on their machines? The cause and effect logic here eludes me. Is he saying
> it's impossible to get Aurora without BitTorrent?
>
> Whatever the case, someone managed to get his discovery of spyware
> (spyware is news?) into CNet News, eWeek, and IDG News service, as well as
> hundreds of blogs talking about how BitTorrent was an "adware distribution
> vehicle." Hey, BitTorrent will distribute whatever you choose to
> distribute. How is this news? This all happened just as the once
> skeptical, now wishy-washy Register (which also reported on the BitTorrent
> issue without questioning it) reported on Avalanche being oh-so-superior
> to BitTorrent.
>
>
> For a good laugh view the Avalanche PowerPoint slide show. It shows all
> sorts of graphs as if Avalanche is actually in the wild being used. I have
> never seen such a crock in my life. Can you say "dry lab?"
>
> Where Is the News Reporting? What bothered me the most about this episode
> was that there was no reporting whatsoever regarding the BitTorrent as
> spyware claims or even the credibility of the renowned MVP Chris Boyd. It
> was basically parroting a leap-of-faith accusation in a blog that somehow
> developed into these eventual talking points: Use BitTorrent and you'll
> get spyware. BitTorrent sucks, and oh, Microsoft has something better,
> although it's never been shipped-but it's better!
>
> Does this sort of media irresponsibility and laziness ever end? Or why
> don't we just shoot everyone doing good work, lie about the facts, and
> turn everything over to Microsoft and its Redmond compound? The only
> defenders of BitTorrent I saw regarding this issue were buried here and
> there on Slashdot. They sure were not in the newsrooms-or the blogs for
> that matter. All the stories I saw were disgraceful.
>
>

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