@josephfcox
Yeah, the weakness is they all stand around outside for an hour or so chatting and waiting for guys with an army with shields to show up. You can kill a lot of people in an hour.
We have an employee who was let go and hasn’t logged out of their expensive MacBook laptop. We paid for it but the laptop was mailed to their house in their name. Apple said whoever it’s mailed to owns it and they won’t unlock or reset it for us. HD is encrypted.
Suggestions?
@TaliaGold
Pretty funny, might reflect
1) How few portfolio companies ever make profit!
2) How disconnected from operating a business many VCs are.
Personally, the obvious path is just pay taxes on it if they want to be that profitable. Or prioritize growth and invest in R&D/people/etc.
@penny_ether
@mbdailyshow
It's because they're mortgages with a 10+ yr window. If 10% want their money for various reasons, you need to come up with $8B fast. You can sell the mortgages, but when they're 1.5% & rates are 4.5%, you sell at a loss. Then others get nervous & want THEIR money back & repeat...
@LinusEkenstam
What are we looking at, was there a person sitting there and it was replaced by a CGI model? Blank space? All on phone or in the cloud and bounced back down to the screen? What calibration/orientation was needed? Looks super interesting, I am curious!
@andruyeung
Life Time Fitness is a customer for my startup too, they’re deploying
@SportsVisioAI
across all their men’s leagues across the US. Players have been loving it and sharing it with other leagues/schools and such. They seem pretty tech savvy/forward thinking.
@giansegato
It’s “for your safety” to prevent “unsophisticated investors” from investing where they can lose money.
But lots of billboards encouraging people to go gamble at state-benefiting casinos and no limits or sophistication tests required.
Sad. They should let you sign a waiver
For the non-football fans, Damar Hamlin is a Buffalo Bills football player. He took a helmet to the chest & his pulse stopped tonight.
They administered CPR for 9 minutes while he wasn’t breathing. He’s now in a hospital intubated in critical condition.
Please be praying. 🙏🏻
@iMeluny
Totally agree. It’s surprising how many cyber security people don’t encourage this. It’s a great way for people to have unique, strong passwords they can actually remember.
Their threat vector isn’t spies breaking into your house to steal passwords, it’s brute force scanners.
@amaldorai
@Aella_Girl
Most people don’t feel safe if their car is broken into, their house is broken into, they’re assaulted, rapes happen, etc. Safety is more than just premature death for almost everyone. (Some kids don’t feel safe if people say mean words these days!)
It’s sad how many I’ve had to unfollow/mute because they fall into the trap of yelling into their app about politics.
If you’re a political account go for it. But if you seek followers in a domain (biz, tech, etc.), it’s as inappropriate as it would be in a office meeting.
@ricknlexi
@sfreeman166
@i41nbeer
@tim_cook
@amnesty
No, he hasn’t been paid. He works for Google Project Zero and Apple hates that they’re analyzing their products. (Since they’re a competitor.) You have to be invited into Apple’s vuln program, he hasn’t been.
Just spent 5-10 minutes reading people railing against something. Then 5 minutes trying to find and read source material myself.
Found the truth is nearly opposite to what they were espousing.
Important to read raw material yourself and not trust the summary of others.
Totally agree with this. The idea that you can selectively turn off body cams and leave microphones in the car is stunning. It means corrupt police can use it to protect themselves when they’re doing their job and hide evidence when breaking the law.
@vivianmshen
Lots of acronyms: GTM, LTV, CAC, SaaS, MAU, DAU, EBITDA, VC, PE, YC, SAFE
Some words with new meanings: Angel, syndicate, liquidation, runway, flywheel
Some terms unique to startup life: 83b, Cap table, convertible note, priced round, party round
Lots to figure out quickly!
A perk of living in this century... now instead of a mathematical error made by hand affecting a research paper, dozens or hundreds of papers that used the same software package can be wrong.
Scale works both ways.
This is kind of a crazy story. Not sure that it’s legal, pretty sure it violates some wiretapping laws in some jurisdictions. They’re potentially man-in-the-middling (MitM) encrypted communications so they can monitor them! 😡
Facebook bought Israeli VPN Onavo in 2013 for ~$200M, and used it to spy on activity in other apps in the man-in-the-middle attack (SSL bump) by impersonating a root cert :
Snapchat in 2016
YouTube in 2017
Amazon in 2018
For Meta, the ends always justify the means.
I do like systems that are tied to something specific.
@LBRYcom
lets content creators get paid for their streams.
@ethereum
lets you implement smart contracts. These don’t seem to directly compete with fiat money and may survive scrutiny from fiat governments.
@elonmusk
Thai sweet chili covered Salmon is the best fish I’ve ever eaten! So tasty.
It’s also the meal that convinced my wife that maybe seafood wasn’t so bad and she eats multiple kinds now
@RealKiraDavis
NH has that, it’s called the Children’s scholarship fund (CSF). It’s pretty neat, companies can actually donate to it and get credit (80%?) against their tax bill. And of course individuals can donate too.
Today: Republican political newcomer, tech entrepreneur Jason Syversen will file soon for the District 16 state Senate seat now held by Democratic Sen. Cavanaugh. His statement & last week's
@WMUR9
report below.
#NHPolitics
via
@jdistaso
@JohnArnoldFndtn
This seems like a big factor: “The group praised Houston’s land use policies — including its lack of a traditional zoning code — for substantially increasing Houston’s housing supply and lowering its costs.” (From )
@bryan_johnson
Uh… I followed for the health insights but that was marginal at best. Not a lot of actionable insight, mostly just milestones and bragging. Adding this and it turned into an unfollow, better stuff to do with my time. 🙄
Good thread. And why I agree with
@hackerfantastic
that you should follow the advice of
@VerifiedVoting
and always require paper ballots to prevent electronic tampering.
A thread on Dominion Democracy Suite. The US president is currently claiming that the electronic voting systems used in a number of states have been hacked, let's explore that possibility by looking at documents related to the environments and potential attack paths.
My startup is out of stealth mode today!!! Please check out and follow
@sports_visio
We are using AI & Computer Vision to extract content from sports video, starting with basketball. In private partner testing now, public launch coming early 2022. Appreciate everyone's support!
@austin_rief
@MorningBrew
Love it Austin. Too many people try to kiss up or aren’t willing to buck standard advice. Love the “luck surface” quote too.
I’ve long said life is more like poker than chess... can’t control individual outcomes, but on average, good decisions win out.
@ErrataRob
Didn’t the shareholders also approve the pay package? Which required him to increase the share price by like 10x to be paid?
Nobody complained about it then, since it seemed so unlikely to achieve. Now that he did it it seems high but the price went up 1000%, so… 🤷🏻♂️
@reidjjackson
@GavinSBaker
Well, they have MORE viewers and cut their human capital costs by 50% (which probably accounts for 80+% of their total costs). So presumably they're making a LOT more profit. It sounds like some advertisers pulled back in the short term out of nervousness but that should change.
@HAXORANON
@Rob_Coleman123
@i41nbeer
@tim_cook
@amnesty
He hasn’t been paid. You have to be invited into Apple’s vuln program, he hasn’t been because he works for Google Project Zero and Apple hates that they’re analyzing their products. (Since they’re a competitor.)
@achambersgop
That’s pretty funny. I thought it was dubbed over at first and then quickly realized those were actual quotes. Surprised you don’t hear from him more often, he’s a journalists dream with those lines
@lecrae
Are you allowed to be humble and admit you were wrong on Twitter?
Pretty sure I’ve never seen anyone do that before! Great thread, and well said
@Centurion
@bartabum
What’s interesting is that their platform Might automatically “preview” the link for them which would have the effect without them even clicking it.
Now you just gotta automate action/remediation…
I could tell tons of stories from when I was at DARPA.
@JasonLeopold
has spent a career forcing info to be released.
Others are in jail for releasing information.
Just had an incident in town where police were unnecessarily vague which led to concerns.
Tough balancing act.
@VisualCap
I’m skeptical of the English speaking countries (US, Canada, Australia) all saying Japanese. I literally don’t know a single person who wants to learn Japanese. Spanish, French, Chinese maybe. Curious where this data comes from.
@Ballin25Braun
@Ballislife
Is he standing on a stool (for some bizarre reason) or just that much taller than everyone else around him? Some of those women look literally half his height… he’s only 7’ tall right!?
@JonAcuff
New Hampshire definitely falls into that category. And with people working from home we’ve seen a big influx of people moving, it’s getting hard to find housing! Consistently ranked as a top place to live in the country.
PayPal updated their TOS so they can deduct $2,500 for violating their Terms of Service. Which includes “anything that PayPal in their sole discretion, finds… objectionable or… otherwise unfit for publication”
They’re saying it was an accident.
I just deleted my account. 👋🏻
Congrats to the winners of best cyber security journalists this year. I don’t know everyone but I can certainly say people like
@Bing_Chris
and
@KimZetter
are well deserving!
@MalwareJake
Wow, crazy story. Glad you were OK, & thanks for sharing. I've been going to Defcon/BH since 1999 (or 2000?) & never had anything like this. Assumed it was more niche than apparently it was from reading the responses.
Thanks for ignoring the "embarrassing" part to warn others.
@innismir
@hackerfantastic
@github
Corporate benefits aside, I’d argue this is protecting users/other developers. Once someone starts uploading code with “malicious” intent it’s logical they’d be terminated, no matter how noble their motives. Otherwise people stop trusting GitHub to store/publish code.
@bobrah3
@bertjwregeer
@lemiorhan
@AppleSupport
@Apple
It's called good security. Do you lock your doors because you have something to hide? Or maybe just that you want to ensure people have permission to enter? It's just common sense/best practice to be secure.
Can’t decide if this is super cool or creepy. I guess like much in AI it’s kind of both and can be used for good or evil:
Researchers have revealed a new
#AI
system capable of translating a person's brain activity into a stream of text in a noninvasive way for the first time.
Kids who manage to grow up and retain the attention span to read long form text will have a super power that’s a huge advantage over everyone else watching TikTok videos and complaining YouTube clips and movies are too hard to follow because of their length/pacing.
@arstechnica
Uh... what does this have to do with technology? Is Ars Technica going to start talking about who to vote for president next?
One more post like this and I'll unfollow, I have plenty of places providing biased (and sometimes unbiased) political stuff as it is. 😬
@hectorarturolc
@peter
@AnthonyLeeZhang
It’s called inflation. If your savings account pays 0.6% but the dollars drop 5% in value, that part of the portfolio has declined in value.
Crazy decade. Started it off unemployed after leaving DARPA to start my own company. No idea what I was doing, just following advice and trusting God. Ended decade unemployed after selling/retiring from the firm, able to focus on charity/VC work.
@gckaloudis
@harryhurst
No, it had value because it MADE MONEY. I could have kept it and just kept creating cash. That's very different than a rock on the ground or some bits.
Companies literally are golden geese that CREATE VALUE.
Bitcoin is a STORE of value.
Big difference.
@harryhurst
Anyone can invest in bitcoin, which only has value assigned to it by others (like a painting, or a stamp, or gold).
Companies make a profit. As a founder you control it (to some degree!)
And I SOLD my firm to diversify because it represented 95% of my net worth. Common sense.
All done in 25 hours! Excited this process is almost over, gave it my best shot and feel good about the effort win or lose.
Hopefully our country can calm down and focus on things other than politics when this is over. Like Christmas and family and sports!
@KimZetter
@KrisGoldsmith85
@TwitterSafety
Agreed. The timing with CEO switches seems suspect to me, wonder how much of it is connected to who’s in charge and less about the maturity of the initiative.
I actually think cryptocurrency will turn into the opposite of what people hope for. Governments will create their own, infiltrate or co-opt existing standards to remove anonymity and give them control over monetary supply. And then ban alternatives to illegal undergrounds.
A ski resort in Austria had their lift controller accessible from the Internet. An attacker could connect and control speed and cable tension remotely. 😑
I’m glad I live in a state (NH) where people don’t appear at rural farms w/a warrant to look around at milk. It’s legal to sell raw milk here, apparently not in Wisconsin.
In general I’m a proponent of keeping things legal but adding warnings/labels.
(Informed) consumer choice.
@alexstamos
Congratulations on the win, big milestone.
How did you get them ordered to pay legal fees? My understanding is that’s hard to do unless you can prove the suit was malicious intent or something like that.
@oliveremberton
@tompuukko
Anyone who read the Washington Post or NYT for tech news is bound to be poorly informed anyway. Those are institutions from a bygone era.
I do agree with your sentiment though, it’s shocking how many people outside tech don’t realize what’s happened and how disruptive it is.
@stpaulgal49
We did state the employee had to return it. But they became “suddenly unavailable” after termination and only returned it after threat of legal action. And now it’s locked. Trying to see if we salvage it, we’re a startup without tons of extra cash and don’t yet have robust MDM
I'm looking for resources to help someone with a CIS/CS background get started in malware analysis. What are some good books/tools/challenge problems/samples/courses that people recommend?
Thanks!
Looks like just 4 broken ribs and the lung. Arm isn’t broken, no neck or spinal damage, spleen and liver are fine. She’s in a fair amount of pain if she moved at all but good otherwise. Grateful, it could’ve been much worse.
Thanks everyone for the prayer and encouragement.
For those that didn’t know I’m running for senate. The campaign account is listed below.
If you think we need more rational, kind, altruistic types in senate I’d appreciate your support!
And I’ve appreciated the support of the hacker/tech/entrepreneur/nonprofit communities!
Wow... North Korea supposedly has stolen $2,000,000,000 online from different “cyber attacks”. Cryptocurrency exchanges & wallets made up a big portion, as did traditional attacks & ransomware. They used it to fund weapon system development.
@runasand
That's what I was focused on! The quality of the technical work was excellent, but the most rare part was finding such quality work also being so well articulated. The downside is it took me like an hour to read it all!
@PalmerLuckey
If you like hacker/cyberwarfare type outfits I can point you to a half dozen. Used to be a PM at DARPA and got to meet the best and brightest.
Oldest daughter married today! Not sure I’m ready for this new phase of life...
Grateful to add another son to the family and for good weather and everything my wife did to help it go smoothly.
@lorakolodny
Saying people are “willfully ignorant” because they don’t choose to watch exploitation of children is harsh, no? Some abhor behavior (real or for “entertainment) & can oppose it, without having to watch it, right? Like animal abuse, I don’t need to view it to to know I’m opposed.
I have to say that telling our kids they had to read for 30 minutes before playing video games (also for 30 minutes) was probably one of our best parenting moves. They went from poor readers to average fairly quickly with all their “voluntary” reading. ❤️
Good incentives FTW!
@KimZetter
@KrisGoldsmith85
@TwitterSafety
How are they going to know who the affected party is in a random photo? Are they doing facial recognition or geolocation on every single photo? I don’t see how they automate it.
Part of me wonders if this is an anti-porn thing, trying to prevent non-cooperative posted content.
@leopoldasch
Super interesting to me, especially given my DARPA and hacking background. Would love to know the source of the paper, funding, and anything else you can share
@leopoldasch
! Also followed you, you’ve got tons of interesting AI content on your account which I loved
@eriktorenberg
People forget every decision isn’t in a vacuum. It’s not: give it to them or burn it in the fire.
It’s: give it to your kids who are already incredibly blessed/fortunate/privileged, or give it to orphans/fighting human trafficking/kids with zero opportunity.
Easy call for us.
@paul_griffiths
Loved the amusing thread, but finding a fellow New England investor who's getting a PhD I had to follow as well!
And I can say, as a veteran Twitter user with _almost_ a whopping 1,500 followers, I have deep knowledge I can share.
This reminds me of Dan Geer’s seminal paper arguing heterogenous networks would be more resistant to catastrophic attack. Microsoft didn’t like that argument but here’s a recent great example of why he was right.
China's ICBC is the 3rd-largest bank in the world.
Their entire network was taken over by ransomware.
But they got back online quickly -- because their trading system used a Novell Netware server that the ransomware didn't understand.
@andruyeung
@SportsVisioAI
Ha-ha, not really besides a big check every year (they have over a hundred locations and I think more than half have leagues).
We’ve gotten to know their senior leadership a bit through it and some former NBA players used us stuff for the national championship Life Time runs
Does anyone else think a $125M (pre money) valuation on <$1M in revenue is insane or is it just me? 🤔
My friend is a true believer and doesn’t get my skepticism… 🤷🏻♂️
@Laughing_Mantis
A fun side effect of getting into hacking was product crashes suddenly became interesting opportunities and not just annoyances to doing my job. 😈
@amaldorai
@Aella_Girl
For sure. But most people suck at analyzing numbers or comprehending statistics.
Violent-crime rate in urban areas was between 29 percent and 42 percent higher than the rate in rural areas, where deaths in car crashes is twice as high in rural areas than urban.
@bitcrazed
We were really trusting at our last firm… employing a bunch of hackers meant they didn’t want their computers locked down. Realizing that model doesn’t work in this new company!
In the future we’re going to enroll in the Apple business program which should prevent this
@thisiskp_
This is a great idea for products that aren't super technical and software is just an enabler (a GUI, a simple database, etc.) If your core product is technical (AI, cybersecurity, embedded, etc.) you really need that other person first.
My kids don’t understand why I like “owning” physical media for movies, songs, etc.
But stuff like this is a great reminder. They can’t remotely delete a record or a CD and delete stuff you purchased.
@matthew_d_green
@spacerog
Bingo. I had lunch with an author today and he said they had seventeen different sources spanning different USG places (IC, non IC) and commercial companies (including some that were affected and caught it). Either a giant well coordinated conspiracy, they’re lying or it’s true.
@rkorny
@evanbaehr
@paulg
Yeah, but there are many reasons. Wealth is also correlated with IQ. So, it makes sense that high IQ people have high IQ offspring (and some even choose a mate in that basis!)
Kids in poverty get worse nutrition, habits, etc. Makes sense scores/outcomes will be lower on average