Was Novell Too Quick To Use China/Google Incident To Disparage Cloud Computing?

Had Novell's director of public relations Ian Bruce not responded to my blog post about Google's choice to change Gmail's default transmission mode from the less secure HTTP (Web) to the more secure and encrypted HTTPS (Secure Web), I would have never seen his own blog post on Novell's Web site entitled On Google, e-mail security, and cloud. But I'm glad I saw it. It's evidence of how some vendors might be too quick to throw fuel on the fire of misinformation in order to draw positive attention to themselves.

Bruce made his post which raises "some old questions about the security of Gmail" on January 13th when so very little was known about the nature of the attack. In a phone call today, Bruce told me that, had he known about the actual nature of the attack (that it involved a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer and that humans may have played a role as well), that he might have worded his post differently. As a result of my inquiry, Bruce said he plans to revise the post today.