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
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.
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.
