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> What is Krebs' false positive rate? What's more important is how those false positives are handled. In this case, it feels like it was swept under the rug a
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> What is Krebs' false positive rate?
What's more important is how those false positives are handled.
In this case, it feels like it was swept under the rug and he avoided addressing for as long as possible. If he had simply addressed the problem head-on as the news came out and the FBI information became public, it would have been a different story.
The way he rushed to report accusations from an anonymous source (who was actually the perpetrator) felt asymmetric relative to the minimal reporting on the extortion scandal and ensuing FBI investigation. IMO, the story about someone extorting their employer and then abusing security reporters as leverage was more interesting than the original story. Yet Krebs did very little reporting on the latter, likely because he knew he was central to making it all happen in the first place.
- dewey 4y ago> What's more important is how those false positives are handled. Is it really though? If there's a company that has to defend / apologize often (Facebook/Meta maybe) I'd be way more critical of their apology than if one guy who didn't have a case like that before apologying a bit too late for some people or not in the way they wish he would. There's also a lot of information we don't know yet, we don't know what happend behind the scenes and when he was provided with the final verdict and facts.
- rovr138 4y ago> If he had simply addressed the problem head-on as the news came out and the FBI information became public, it would have been a different story. Isn’t that what caused the issue in the first place? He talked before all the info was out and he could verify all of it.
- wlesieutre 4y agoI wonder if the delay in addressing it was at the advice of his lawyer so that they could negotiate with the "oops" blog post as part of a settlement