There are documented public disputes about Gecko Security’s conduct when it comes to claiming credit for vulnerability research. For example, FuzzingLabs publicly accused Gecko Security of copying PoCs and submitting CVE reports for vulnerabilities that FuzzingLabs had originally disclosed, and of misdating their posts to make it appear they found them first. Gecko publicly denied intentional wrongdoing, but later updated their attributions to credit the original researchers [1].
That's one example that's already reported online; I also have another related situation that isn't public yet and involves one of my companies.
Same. While it doesn't help that their name is about as generic as it gets, I searched across Kagi, Google, etc. and couldn't find any such YC company.
That being said, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if somebody's tried to start the tech equivalent of the casino "Black Book".
> Y Combinator is starting a blacklist for venture capitalists accused of sexual harassment: "'We don’t call it a blacklist, but that is essentially what is happening,” Kat Manalac, a partner at the influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, said of the blast email.
And that Optifye.ai demo with the sweatshop surveillance software
And Cluely
Cluely is not YC.
he might be thinking of chadIDE "the first brainrot ide"
the same Cluely that's on IG? I thought that was a fictional satire.
And, Gecko Security.
Flock is an awful company, but what's the trouble with Gecko security? Are you talking about https://www.gecko.security/ or something else?
There are documented public disputes about Gecko Security’s conduct when it comes to claiming credit for vulnerability research. For example, FuzzingLabs publicly accused Gecko Security of copying PoCs and submitting CVE reports for vulnerabilities that FuzzingLabs had originally disclosed, and of misdating their posts to make it appear they found them first. Gecko publicly denied intentional wrongdoing, but later updated their attributions to credit the original researchers [1].
That's one example that's already reported online; I also have another related situation that isn't public yet and involves one of my companies.
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-firm...
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How would that even be legal? (Although I can't find such a startup with any kind of search engine)
Why would it be illegal?
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I can't find any website for it. Are you sure it's not just some posting category on Bookface, YC's internal social network?
Same. While it doesn't help that their name is about as generic as it gets, I searched across Kagi, Google, etc. and couldn't find any such YC company.
That being said, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if somebody's tried to start the tech equivalent of the casino "Black Book".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_(gambling)
Might be this:
> Y Combinator is starting a blacklist for venture capitalists accused of sexual harassment: "'We don’t call it a blacklist, but that is essentially what is happening,” Kat Manalac, a partner at the influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, said of the blast email.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenfeldman/2017/07/17/todays-...
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