Comment by fulcanelli
9 years ago
You are giving Thomas Ptacek too much credit by asking these questions. His only? engineering product was a gimmick that did "firewall rule management" and I doubt he had much to do with the engineering part. Yet he feels obligated to comment on the quality of CIA/NSA cyberespionage toolkits.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13814135 and marked it off-topic.
95-96: EnterAct, OpenBSD
97-99: Secure Networks, Ballista scanner lead, vulnerability research lab
99-01: Doomed multicast startup
01-05: Lead dev, Arbor Networks
05-15: Cofounder, Matasano
15-16: Doomed recruiting startup
17-: Startup dooming startup
Hope that helps.
I like the idea that we squeezed 10 years out of that firewall rule thingy at Matasano. Sick burn!
This is a pretty interesting fly-by attack. Insinuation, not evidence based. Asking questions and having a conversation is why the rest of us are here. What is your goal by attacking the credibility of other people in the conversation?
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