Eric Case at Google’s Blogger service struck back at a trio of writers over their remarks on Blogger’s security.
After blogging notables like Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Philipp Lenssen (Google Blogoscoped), and Juan Carlos Perez (IDG) took Blogger to the proverbial woodshed for a mild spanking for its security issues, Case responded to them:
(W)hen I see posts like these from Michael, Phillip or Juan Carlos, I get somewhat disheartened. They may be missing an important point: because we are eating our own dogfood, Blogger becomes a better, more secure product.
No one suggested Google isn’t enjoying a Science Diet-like repast, though, when it comes to Blogger and the several errors it has suffered over the past couple of years.
Arrington and Perez both noted that Google needed to stop careless mistakes like the ones Blogger has experienced if Google wants to be taken seriously from a security standpoint. Lenssen didn’t even go that far.
Case defended the past sins of Blogger as cited by the trio, and seemingly suggested these were not worth such scrutiny:
The issues they raise (like the fake Google Blog post, which involved an API bug) typically get fixed and pushed live within hours of their discovery. The Google Blog deletion that Michael mentions was the result of an automated anti-blogspam process and a double-corner case involving a feature of Blogger we discontinued many years ago — no actual users were affected. Andrea’s accidental post on Blogger Buzz was simple human error. Those of us with multiple blogs have probably all made the same mistake at one point or another…
Not everyone with multiple blogs is a Google with a twelve-digit market cap and a desire to organize the world’s information, either. Being flip with a response and misdirecting the issue by talking about eating one’s dogfood is the sort of old-school responding Microsoft used to do.
Maybe this is just another example of Bill Gates being accurate in calling Google the competitor most like Microsoft he had ever seen.
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