borski
Joined 18 years ago
Joined 18 years ago
(And we’re fixing many of these things, but worth noting this happened at a third party vendor, not in our lab)
hack the planet.
It used to be true, but this changed many years ago.
He is one of two friends to have passed from DKA. Miss you, Zach. RIP.
Miss pwning with you.
If you’re talking about a place to mature, around others who are at a similar phase of life, also yes.
It is where most people meet their cofounders, for example, even if they don’t found anything until much later.
Thus, you build reputation by acquiring karma.
It isn’t perfect, but the fact that folks with higher karma can “fix” the emotional flags of folks with lower karma, it helps.
Also, I’d recommend re-reading the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are a lot of sheriffs.
I run the Agentic Red Team at Google DeepMind.
I have always been more interested in why and how things worked, rather than just being content that they did.
20+ years in offensive software security, eight patents (I hate them but tell that to the VCs who love them)
Sold Tinfoil Security, after 9 years of building it, to Synopsys, in January 2020. Hell of a ride.
My (last) startup: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com acquired by https://www.synopsys.com
Twitter: @borski
[email protected] -- get in touch! I'm always up for meeting interesting people.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/borski; my proof: https://keybase.io/borski/sigs/-cfyFmMrqV_tAh69m5bO-EY3t_gllRR0ODZqOa7E0E4 ]