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I dunno...It definitely makes financial sense to make sure stuff you work on doesn't appear in someone else's DEFCON presentation.
by eschneider 3y ago
I dunno...It definitely makes financial sense to make sure stuff you work on doesn't appear in someone else's DEFCON presentation.
- rainsford 3y agoI'm not sure that's actually true, since basically every company and every project of significant size has been the subject of DEFCON presentations. Sure, it's temporarily embarrassing and unfortunate, but it's not like customers are going to move to the non-existent alternatives that have never had a security vulnerability. There's certainly degrees of CVE counts and the like, but as long as it's not egregiously worse than everyone else, being the subject of a DEFCON presentation puts you in pretty good company with literally everyone else.
- eschneider 3y agoThat...just isn't true. I spend a dozen years working on AI enabled surveillance cameras and there were some vendors who's cameras could continually show up and vendors (including ours :) who didn't. And while there are customers who are aware of things like this and shop accordingly, I'd personally be more concerned about my own reputation damage. It's not the sort of thing I'd like to get questions about in a job interview.
- doubled112 3y agoI'm not so sure. Atlassian software comes to mind as a counter-example.