On Monday 30 December 2002 16:38, Curtis Rey wrote:
Objectivity by CERT is a misnomer, they are not objective in the least. They are, however, a for profit organizaton open to the highest bidder.
Case in point: They did a report on AMD flaw where they cited numerous reasons why Intel made a better product. Fact of the matter they never did one interview with anyone at AMD and derived their "facts" for the study base on perceptions commonly subscribed to by the general public. So, what we see with CERT reports is more often due to its mission of fulfilling it's own market strategy - that is to reports with a "wow" factor in order to get people to subscribe to their service. They're all about producing reports with a marketing target and they are not a objective research organization. The report is for the purpose of telling people what they want to hear - namely those the work for or support M$. It isn't worth the time it takes to read it. They lack completely any sort of meaningful data and offer up antecdotal evidence that is weakingly, if at all, confirmable. I'm not saying this because I'm a Linux supporter. I'm saying this because their research methods are not mentioned, given, and no real analysis techniques are offered in support of the "data" they claim in the story/report.
Curtis
Hang on there. Aberdeen did the report, not CERT. (If memory serves me correctly.) However, what you are saying is basically true, but about Aberdeen. I personally think their "research methods" **were** mentioned and that was simply to quote numbers based on the CERT advisories and create some interesting, if not confusing, statistics. Using raw numbers, independent of any real frames of reference and then creating a set of statistics is a common and (unfortunately too offen) acceptable "reasearch method". Regards, jimmo -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups, mailing lists or forums are subject to reposting.