Discussion
I try not to over-react to the Internet's Outrages Of The Day, but it should be instantly disqualifying for a CEO of a company that sells reliability and security to tell employees that careful testing is "loser thinking". And if not, it should instantly disqualify that company's products from your consideration.
What the hell, Proton?
@mattblaze Anyone here got a VPN recommendation?
@mattblaze Testing culture is a security control in its own right. At Prynoid we compare what a product says with what it does on the wire, and the gap is usually found only by careful, repeatable testing. Skipping that step moves risk onto the customer.
@mattblaze why is some American tech bro running a supposedly privacy & security focused company in Europe. This is the sort of DEI that really needs to stop.
@mattblaze there had already been signs that Proton was selling more the *perception* of security than security itself (à la Telegram, shall we say) but that was definitely A Way to go public about it.
@oblomov Early on, they promised (or implied) more than they could possibly deliver about resisting legal demands for user data.
@mattblaze
Ummm... which outrage of the day do you mean? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai-tokens-to-rewrite-98-percent-of-the-companys-legacy-code-in-24-months-president-plucks-former-startup-founder-telling-him-to-go-nuts
(I know — but today's BOGO is really something.)
h/t
Disclaimer: I'm not a Proton customer, and I guess that's not likely to change any time soon.
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@mattblaze The Proton debacle is a nightmare - I had just started trialing it to replace US software vendors, and I feel like I'm living a "frying pan into the fire" moment...