Comment by baggachipz
6 days ago
Who could have guessed that the greedy, opportunistic, evil corporation whose sole intent is to invade our privacy in the name of "security" would be run by incompetents in the security realm?
6 days ago
Who could have guessed that the greedy, opportunistic, evil corporation whose sole intent is to invade our privacy in the name of "security" would be run by incompetents in the security realm?
Their CEO comes off as a real self-righteous character.
One has to wonder whether these passwords were that way purposefully to avoid accountability for privileged partners. Most of these systems are deployed with grant money that it comes from the department of justice.
> Their CEO comes off as a real self-righteous character.
https://www.ci.staunton.va.us/home/showpublisheddocument/134... (PDF)
My favorite part:
> [Activists are] also trying to turn a public records process into a weapon against you and against us.
As if people are not simply asking for something to which they are entitled through legislation.
“I can’t believe these people are exercising their rights!”
- someone who screams about the 1st amendment whenever they’re told they’re being an asshole
Ah yes, the teeneager point of view of “why is everyone trying to ruin my life!”
Adults that didn’t grow up.
He’s clearly mimicking Alex Karp. And there’s no doubt in my mind that this is one of many backdoors built into Flock.
this is more of an unlocked front door
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“Wow, we totally didn’t know we had everything accessible on Shodan! We totally hope that no federal entities exploited this (fake tears), but I guess we can’t tell anyway! It’s not as if they found out about it from us :(”
I'm surprised they didn't name it after some Tolkien reference that they completely misinterpreted...
FYI; Flock was/is a YC backed company
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
> We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.
…and of course they do the exact opposite. All a bunch of bullshit from inception.
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Which really makes me sad that no one from YCombinator is speaking up. It’s all about money.
Y combinator has funded a significant portion of the most harmful tech companies of this century. They're profoundly amoral, just like you'd expect from a profitable venture capital firm.
On the bright side, they also hire dang, so that's one against 100 million.
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Given YC's leadership over the past decade or so, I don't think they have anything they'd want to speak up about. This is probably all fine with them.
I used to hold YC in very high regard, but these days I don't think they're materially different from any other investing shop when it comes to values.
YC seeming like more and more of a joke since AI took off
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This is extremely disappointing. Absolutely turned off applying for or working for any YC companies now.
It's also interesting Garry Tan (YC Partner) has a lot of comments for the masses when it's on a one sided platform like X. But, will never engage here. Oh the irony.
He seems to enjoy spreading factually misguided "statistics" [0] about how Flock is "solving crime". OK buddy.
I mean, just look at how he enagages with those replies. If that's at the helm of YC? WTF.
[0] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963256544524640456
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VC firms are behind the police state and the break down in world order in general.
YC is not the good guy in this world.
Here's an elucidation, taking that question seriously, supplying a bunch of "Why's" --
* https://medium.com/@ajay.monga73/why-developers-still-hardco...
A root-cause analysis here that's about intrinsic difficulty is misguided IMHO. Secrets and secrets-delivery are an environment service that individual developers shouldn't ever have to think about. If you cut platform/devops/secops teams to the bone because they aren't adding application features, or if you understaff or overwork seniors that are supposed to be reviewing work and mentoring, then you will leak eventually. Simple as. Cutting engineering budgets for marketing budgets and executive bonuses practically guarantees these kinds of problems. Engineering leadership should understand this and deep down, it usually does. So the most direct way to talk about this is usually acknowledging willful negligence and/or greed
Agreed. Proper secrets management is table stakes for any company entrusted with paying customers.
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