Which makes it weirder, in a way. Surely such a security guru is going to be tweaking his personal browser, especially JS and Flash settings, and probably finding himself locked out of something for not looking enough like a typical clueless netizen. Or, he knows better than most how sophisticated and adaptive lucrative botnets are, so why would he think JS and Flash are deep magic the bots can't do?

But, as others have noted, it's probably been boiled down into something dumb for the layperson, and their algorithms are more complex than you would think from that quote.

Edit: Actually, given their target users, I guess he wouldn't be locked out, just falsely identified as a fake ad consumer.

I don't care how well known he is. If that quote is accurate, he is peddling something that is known to not work in practice for the more sophisticated botnets.

These quotes are never accurate because it's marketology spread by a PR firm :-)

Then maybe he should invest in making sure the PR quotes him accurately?

If your PR firm can get a story about your company on a NY Times blog, I don't think you worry about how a few tech pedants might interpret some innocuous quote.

That might be. I guess I'm just being a dick about it then?