“I’d especially like to thank three colleagues, Thor Simon, Viktor Dukhovni and Larry Rudolph for their assistance on this project.” That’s Victor Duchovni, in

“I’d especially like to thank three colleagues, Thor Simon, Viktor Dukhovni and Larry Rudolph for their assistance on this project.” That’s Victor Duchovni, inventor of the Postfix MTA. Two Sigma, founded only back in 2001 (i.e. newer than Google), has certainly done well in retaining some incredible people on the software and computer security side. From what I’ve heard, it’s a fantastic place to work as an engineer. They give people lots of independence to work on things they consider to be important, which is really exemplified by this blog post. I think many larger financial firms would just outsource their Apple security, but Two Sigma has an engineering poking around the hardware and making novel discoveries. That kind of thinking is how you actually get ahead in securing an enterprise, IMHO.