Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat

All good sentiments.

However, objectifying the human form is pretty much what three quarters of media is about. To dig deeper, every third ad image, all fashion photos, half the oil paintings in the world are vulnerable to those criticisms.

This was pretty tone-deaf - using live people when a department-store dummy would have done (and strangely, provoked little criticism, think about that).

I like lamp

> It was tone-deaf, in poor taste, and not aligned with our company values or brand campaign.

... but we decided to do it anyway.