I wonder if there's a bet to be made on future 8K disclosures following quietly updated signing keys. A bet against F5 placed this morning would've only made 3.6%.
I think Shape Security qualifies for this list. They raised $100M before having a customer, seemed to die, quietly got adopted by a large pool of F50 companies, and exited to F5 for a $1B valuation. That’s a big chunk of change for a security play, especially back in 2019.
Their moat ended up being two fold. One, they were the only tech stack that could handle the scale needed back then. Two, they had a crazy culture of never letting adversaries win and would push daily updates to keep attackers off their customers. Both took a long time to iterate and build towards and nobody thought it was cool while they worked through it.
Some of us prefer to enjoy sex as a beautiful act of human connection and condoms detract from being in the moment of joy.
This is like saying to someone killed in a motorcycle accident why didn’t you use a car. It’s a reductive, unempathetic and frankly unproductive take. Please think before asking this again.
It would be rather silly to assume all bears have the same last name "bear"! It's not as if people all walk around saying "Oh hi I'm Timothy Human" "Nice to meet you, I'm Rachel Human, are we related?"
Which, come to think of it, is kind of a funny notion, and a nice reminder that despite our differences we really are all related!
Schneier is wrong that "hey google" is always listening. Google does on-device processing with dedicated hardware for the wake-words and only then forwards audio upstream. Believe it or not, the privacy people at Google really do try to do the right things. They don't always succeed, but they did with our hardware and wake-word listening.
Having recently purchased an engagement ring, I am amazed by how inexpensive synthetic diamonds have become. Back in 2015 I paid for a natural stone. Prices then were nuts. You can get so much more weight, color, and clarity now. I really hope the extraction of natural diamonds becomes a historical shame soon.
I do not understand people who want a natural stone. My buddy is marrying a woman who insisted on a natural rock. It’s one of many things wrong with her, and fits the pattern I’ve seen with her to a T.
CEO of Tenable publishing an open letter pushing Microsoft to disclose and patch a cross-customer data access vulnerability in their service.
In my opinion, this is the kind of issue that could undermine trust not just in Azure, but potentially in other Clouds as well. It feels to me that MSFT is being a poor ecosystem steward if they are allowing this kind of vulnerability to fester and not provide complete transparency to their customers.
There's a name given in the article for the mechanism by which the planet's orbit became weird, and the same mechanism has been active in our own solar system. I am not convinced that "defies the rules of physics" is an appropriate title for this article.
Perhaps "This Exoplanet's Orbit Has Been Significantly Shifted Relative to Most Orbits" and while that isn't as interesting, it is significantly more accurate.
One opportunity with this kind of technology is to identify when a plate is mismatched with the car. If you assume that stolen plates and stolen cars are a problem, which I think is a good assumption, you can make the adversary's life harder by forcing them to match plate to car make/model/color/year by deploying an ALPR that alerts on mismatches.
There's a good story here about flipping the current economics for criminals--it's trivially cheap to steal plates and cars--towards a world where they have the harder problem of matching plate to car.