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See superfish advisors who are prof. from MIT, Yale... http://www.home.superfish.com/#!board-members/c1whv Professor Tomaso Poggio, PH.D – MIT Prof Lior Wolf – MIT/Tel Aviv Professor Yosi Keller – Yale/Bar-Ilan Olga Russakovsky, PH.D – Stanford (Fei-Fei) Ron Bekkerman, PH.D - University of Massachusetts

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They're all in computer vision, machine learning, ect... I doubt they helped for more than the visual search engine.

I doubt the investors really knew about the MITM attacks with the universal private key either. I think Superfish and Komodia did something bad, but the buck should stop with them.

Why? It was probably pressure from the investors that drove them to do it. You can't say to someone "get this done no matter the cost" and then expect to be held blameless when they do something shady.

It's kind of like a mob boss who says to his lieutenant, "Boy, it sure would be helpful to us if that grocery store burned down". How else were they supposed to monetize their tech? They did exactly what everyone else does and found a way to use it for advertising.

Unless they want to be connected to superfish forever, now is the time to publicly distance themselves from it.

You overestimate how much people care outside of the tech community (which is not the same as the academic computing community).

That's rather strange institutional association listing, or at least Lior Wolf only did a postdoc at MIT, albeit under Tomaso Poggio, who's a Brain and Cognitive Sciences department professor.

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