I was seeing claims of a firm having a 'short' interest in AMD and thus they were trying to sandbag the stock[1]. Sounds like this security firm might be more of an investment firm just trying to push a stock a certain way?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-amd/after-short-selling-surge-israeli-firm-says-it-finds-amd-chip-flaw-idUSKCN1GP273" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-amd/after-short-sel...</a>
Somebody in another thread pointed out that much of the security community laughs at Linus. That says less about him than about their own insularity and inflated sense of self-importance. Attempts to defend CTS only show that his reciprocal contempt for them is well deserved. When members of a community act in stupid or toxic ways, it's very important for other members of that community to be <i>first</i> to censure them, lest they lose their own credibility.
> It looks like the IT security world has hit a new low.<p>That paper isn’t from the IT world. It’s from the kinda-looks-like-securities-fraud world.
Not a lawyer but my understanding is that finding something legitimately wrong with a company, shorting the stock, publicizing it, and profiting is okay if you're right? The problem was they got it wrong.
I wonder why they dont pick on Intel?<p>Now I read someone on twitter saying Intel behind this ( Jokingly I think ), I dont think Intel is stupid enough to put out such a poor form of report.