3 ms·
"After all, without trade secrets and IP, a business has nothing to stand out from the crowd." I'm not sure if that's meant to be sarcastic or serious.
by Rapzid 8y ago
"After all, without trade secrets and IP, a business has nothing to stand out from the crowd."
I'm not sure if that's meant to be sarcastic or serious.
- eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y agoI thought that was a bizarre statement too. There are plenty of businesses that are successful without unique IP. GoDaddy is probably one of the best examples of that -- it's web hosting and domains, it's mostly a commodity at this point. Domain registration is absolutely a commodity. I also question how bad it really would have been if the entirety of the information was leaked to the public. This is more embarrassing for AWS than GoDaddy.
- meowface 8y agoYeah, this is a rare case where the company can actually 100% blame the vendor. It's usually a case of a company not properly following the vendor's documentation or otherwise misconfiguring something.
- Rapzid 8y agoThe article is a bit sensationalist from the title through to most of the "what ifs" and speculations in the body. Hidden right at the end Godaddy even downplays the sensitivity of the information that was available.
- Nasrudith 8y agoSounds like a serious Freudian slip that reveals their true character. Like when in the wake of a horrifying scandal the head says that their goal is to restore the trust of the public instead of doing something about the root problem. Or a bad parent's reaction to hearing that their teenaged son was in a high speed crash while borrowing his car was 'is the car okay'? In this case he admits that he has absolutely nothing special or even good to stand out.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoI'm pretty sure the author is serious here and that they honestly don't know other ways to stand out.