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> Stay calm. I can’t tell you how much I wanted to curse out the Fizz team over email. But no. We had to keep it professional — even as they resorted to legal s
by sublinear 3y ago
> Stay calm. I can’t tell you how much I wanted to curse out the Fizz team over email. But no. We had to keep it professional — even as they resorted to legal scare tactics. Your goal when you get a legal threat is to stay out of trouble. To resolve the situation. That’s it. The temporary satisfaction of saying “fuck you” isn’t worth giving up the possibility of an amicable resolution.
Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but it would never cross my mind to take any of this personally.
If they're this bad at security, this bad at marketing, and then respond to a fairly standard vulnerability disclosure with legal threats it's pretty clear they have no idea what they're doing.
Being the "good guy" can sometimes be harder than being the "bad guy", but suppressing your emotions is a basic requirement for being either "guy".
- ngai_aku 3y ago> If they're this bad at security, this bad at marketing, and then respond to a fairly standard vulnerability disclosure with legal threats it's pretty clear they have no idea what they're doing. And yet, according to the linked article in the Stanford Daily, they received $4.5 million in funding
- kdmccormick 3y ago> Maybe it's because I'm getting old Yup, that's it :) These kids are either in college or just graduated. They were smart enough to get themselves legal help before saying anything stupid, which is impressive. Cut them some slack!
- sublinear 3y agoMy ego has probably by now rewritten my memories to match who I am today. This situation seems like it would have had me and my friends laughing, not scared. Brains are weird.