3 ms·

I'd bet there is a lot of drama going on. It's not a company that "decides it wants security more closely integrated with engineering --- or the opposite", it'

I'd bet there is a lot of drama going on. It's not a company that "decides it wants security more closely integrated with engineering --- or the opposite", it's one person who wants that, and he's bring his buddies along now that he's in power. It's not some logical process. At that level all they have is their personalities and egos.

tptacek 5y ago
The new CEO also fired the head of engineering, and other senior leadership. You can call it ego or whatever, I'm just saying, there probably isn't a super interesting story of why Zatko had to go. "We're scrapping top management and we want the new team to have the freedom to organize the security org they way they want to" seems like the most plausible explanation. And, again: high-level organizational management seems like a weird place to slot Zatko, who seems like he'd be happiest as like, a senior fellow at CSIS or something.