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Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?

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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snake%20oil

snake oil (noun):

1: any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties

2: poppycock, bunkum

Who are these people, companies, entities etc. in the tech world?

Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?

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Anyone who pitches a "safer" computer language, or methodology. Rust, for example.

People who sell memory that they know is unreliable, otherwise RowHammer[1] wouldn't work

Most of the "CyberSecurity" industry... the Operating System should be doing their job, but isn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

Re: Ask HN: Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?

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Anyone who pitches a "safer" computer language, or methodology. Rust, for example. People who sell memory that they know is unreliable, otherwise RowHammer[1] wouldn't work Most of the "CyberSecurity" industry... the Operating System should be doing their job, but isn't. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

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