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ainsleyb

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About ainsleyb

My favorite day is pi day, though I don't eat pie. Co-founder of Tinfoil Security https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com

Follow me at ainsleybraun.com

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    That's awesome. We used OpenVPN because that's what we were familiar with, but your L2TP script looks great. Would you mind if we tried to integrated that at some point?

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    Comment #5482548

    There are a number of ways: malware, browser extensions, man in the middling, etc. SQLi would have been a better example than XSS, but there are definitely ways in which XSS can st…

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    Comment #5446777

    Flying cars DO exist! :) http://www.terrafugia.com/

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    Comment #5397832

    No problem at all! We may very well start crawling your advisory DB for our own mailing list, which isn't limited to just Ruby, to be fair. ;) It's always good to have more eyes on…

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    Comment #5365308

    This is an interesting take. For us, it's not about age, but about personality. We have a financial controller who is 20 years older than everyone else on the team and we'd bring h…

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    Comment #5254161

    As a founder your job is to take the high road as much as possible while still pushing through the strengths of your company. It seems pretty obvious that NYT won't be changing the…

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    Comment #5153787

    Sorry about the confusion. If you run a scan from our homepage, you're actually looking for a lot more than just the YAML vulnerability (XSS, Mixed Resource, etc.) as our product i…

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    Comment #5153772

    There are other workarounds, too. You could disable XML parameter parsing, for example (as seen here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/rubyonra... ). Thus, you m…

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    Comment #5153734

    I've posted a little bit more on our blog at: http://blog.tinfoilsecurity.com/use-rails-check-yourself-for...

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    Comment #5153677

    Mind if we copy that verbatim? :)

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    Comment #4792944

    We're actually offering free web security, too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4792073 :)

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    Comment #4792073

    Love what Mixpanel is doing, so we'd like to jump on the bandwagon. Offering our $59 Basic plan for free for life, and 50% off all other plans. Happy to keep startups secure :) Ema…

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    Comment #4785140

    Try http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELdlNqFzO2slw&featu...

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    Comment #4784573

    The first episode is available for free on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/start-ups-silicon-vall... It's a travesty, and puts female entrepreneurs in a poor light, p…

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    Comment #4779306

    This looks a lot like BugHerd ( http://www.bugherd.com ). Might be worth looking at what they do?

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    Comment #4775674

    Seems awesome - like a GUI for git-flow. What is the pricing for this? Seems there's a free download at the top, but the bottom says "Buy for $29.99". Might want to make the pricin…

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    And this is the precise reason we exist. :)