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zwass

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About zwass

Cofounder & CTO - Fleet

https://fleetdm.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #39121603

    Disclosure: I'm CTO at Fleet. One of the biggest challenges is the vendor lock-in that results from the way the MDM systems work (particularly on macOS). In typical MDM solutions y…

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    Comment #35530602

    Disclaimer: I'm the CTO One of my favorite things about this is that we are bringing a GitOps workflow to IT teams. As a software engineer myself, seeing change management and CI c…

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    Comment #34541945

    Super cool! It would be great if the description field had a link to the subreddit and a link to the master list.

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    Ask HN: Why do I get so much “Yeti Backpack Cooler” spam?

    Subject: You've been chosen Body (in an image): You have been chose to participate in our loyalty program for free... I've been seeing messages like this constantly make the inbox …

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    Comment #33576033

    This is an interesting looking product. I grew lettuces using the Kratky method in cheap plastic bins and some standard shelving units, which was relatively low effort and had trem…

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    Comment #33446644

    There was a similar instance of a fake student living on Stanford campus about 20 years ago. I wonder if this is common among elite schools, or if Stanford has some special draw?

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    Comment #32454228

    Fun! I kept thinking about doing this. Love your idea to use the dot-matrix tool. Maybe next a GitHub action to keep it updated and/or change it over time?

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    Comment #32310109

    Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere…

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    Comment #32292515

    (I'm on the osquery steering committee) In theory osquery is "just" virtual tables, but in practice there's quite a bit more that would probably make attaching it to mvsqlite. If y…

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    Comment #32143439

    For folks who have announced funding rounds, how common have you found these kind of attacks?

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    Comment #31771341

    I would be commending them if this notice went out March 3 after they had remediated the problem and were aware that they had no logs to determine whether there was abuse.

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    Comment #31771332

    contents:read to contents:write is a big deal! Just to pick out a random widely used project, nodejs [1] has a number of unsigned commits to the main branch. Their commits could ha…

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    Comment #31770102

    Their statements indicate they were aware and investigating. My frustration is that they didn't give users the opportunity to do their own timely investigation. > GitHub learned vi…

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    Comment #31769551

    It's unbelievable to me that they waited over 3 months from when they became aware of this vulnerability until disclosing to effected organizations.

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    GitHub waited 3 months to notify about potential compromise

    It seems GitHub became aware of the issue around March 2 (or before, since the fix was released on March 2), and waited until June 16 to disclose the problem. See full text below: …

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    Comment #31486051

    I moved to Canada from the US recently and was shocked at how poorly Interac e-transfers work and that there is no Venmo/Cash equivalent. The system seems to assume a 1:1 mapping f…

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    Comment #31237014

    Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere…

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    Comment #31196845

    Fleet source code is available at https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet . Technically, we're "100% source available open core" with a hybrid MIT/proprietary license that we adapted from…

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    Comment #31086798

    Glad to see that you've continued investing in this project! I paid for the Premium version back in the Projectifi times and would have loved a heads up by email that you made some…

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    Comment #30806956

    I actually just picked up the exact same printer but hadn't yet had time to see what OSS libraries were available yet. I had a previous project where I printed photos on a low res …

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    Comment #30519708

    Fleet | Remote (Worldwide, Americas Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote | https://fleetdm.com Fleet is building an open future for device management. Open APIs you can use from anywhere…

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    Comment #30469778

    I'm excited to see how Guillaume is sharing our security journey as Fleet grows!

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    Comment #30458965

    https://archive.is/QvFIj

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    Comment #30305159

    Recent conversations with Apple have not yielded much support for a rapidly scaling worldwide-remote team. Our money's peanuts on the scale of things for them, so we need to take m…