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If you don't know who this is, read his CV: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/cv-web-en.pdf
Wait, this is lcamtuf? Wow. I've always been in awe of his AFL fuzzer: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2014/11/pulling-jpegs-out-of-th...
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yeah I think it's feeling the HN effect already (a bit ironic that it doesn't have https enabled)
Not as ironic as the OpenBSD Foundation asking for donations via an http site
A tweet from a middle manager changing jobs doesn’t seem at all newsworthy. Are people reading more into this than they should be?
@jvanegue: > there is a CISO position to fill at @facebook I hear @lcamtuf: > Waiting for NYTimes to tell me why I am leaving Google first. This little exchange speaks volumes about what's happening in the the media regarding the tech industry: one company behaves badly and then all get tarred and feathered. Facebook's security leadership starts jumping ship, and when someone analogous from Google, a completely diffe…
Perhaps that's perfectly fair, and perhaps everyone has a responsibility for the standards and behavior in their community. That would apply especially to Google, a leader in the community. To the degree the public views the standards (including laws and regulations) as insufficient because of what Facebook has done, perhaps they are correct. And it won't be changed without Google's direct involvement; the public might wonder, why hasn't Google seen to these issues already (if they have, it's largely been ineffective). If fraud is rife on Wall Street, is it wrong to hold Goldman Sachs accountable regardless of their direct involvement? Is it plausible that Goldman Sachs is not directly involved, given their size and influence? Doesn't Goldman Sachs have a responsibility to fix the problem, regardless, at least as a leader?
(Thanks to dpark for providing essential context about the parent comment: The author works at Google.
A tweet from a middle manager changing jobs doesn’t seem at all newsworthy. Are people reading more into this than they should be?
If you don't know who this is, he wrote one of my favourite books on web (browser) security: "The Tangled Web" [1]. Another lesser known book by him is also worth a read: "Silence on the Wire" that takes a look at the full information security stack from the keyboard you type on, to the wires the data transits, to the internet protocols, etc [2] and looking at how each stage exposes/protects data. And has quite an in…
That's funny because there is another book [1] with exactly the same title and also about computer security, although it predates the one you mention by a decade. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applicati...
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That's funny because there is another book [1] with exactly the same title and also about computer security, although it predates the one you mention by a decade. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Web-Securing-Modern-Applicati...
That's the same book and link.
https://www.amazon.com/TANGLED-WEB-Digital-Shadows-Cyberspac...
@jvanegue: > there is a CISO position to fill at @facebook I hear @lcamtuf: > Waiting for NYTimes to tell me why I am leaving Google first. This little exchange speaks volumes about what's happening in the the media regarding the tech industry: one company behaves badly and then all get tarred and feathered. Facebook's security leadership starts jumping ship, and when someone analogous from Google, a completely diffe…
> the world assumes a similar scandal is on the way. I see no-one assuming that.
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I too am interested in security related topics. I don’t know what that has to do with this tweet. High profile contributors to the community changing jobs is pretty common, so I’m not sure why a tweet about this particular case is noteworthy.
Consider for a moment that Michal Zalewski might simply be held in esteem by the HN community, and therefore his leaving Google after 11 years is personally significant to many HN users. Is that too far out for you to believe?
I commented because it’s not obvious to me why this tweet would be front page news when folks of roughly similar influence and visibility change jobs all the time, and we don’t seem to be submitting and upvoting their tweets.
Maybe soon we will report on what Dan Kaminsky ate for breakfast or which car Charlie Miller was spotted driving!