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Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks
- not_your_vase 7mo ago> everything is untrue, that's why we have changed every aspect of our business in the past 96 hours I gotta say I'm convinced
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- aaronrobinson 7mo agoThey look guilty in that picture
- semyonsh 7mo agoThere is an old Dutch saying which goes: "Trust comes afoot and leaves on horseback". When you're in the compliance business you cannot fumble this ball, but you have.
- redanddead 7mo agoI don't see a way to recover frankly Their existing customers are seriously exposed, i don't see this going anywhere except court The problem is the malicious intent, you just can't do that anywhere, esp not in a trust based business..
- jazzpush2 7mo agoThe CEO is a clear scammer. How anyone trusts another word out of her math is beyond belief.
- nickvec 7mo ago> we built on an Apache 2.0 open-source repository, which explicitly permits commercial use, and significantly rebuilt it for compliance use cases This framing is misleading. Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, but it also requires you to retain copyright/attribution notices, include the license, and add prominent notices to modified files. Also hard to square “the allegations are fabricated” with simultaneously offering free re-audits, halting audit automation, and rebuilding the entire auditor network.
- jazzpush2 7mo agoAlso: you'd expect a compliance company to understand basic software licensing, especially the most popular.
- benmmurphy 7mo agoThe problem with Apache 2 is it might not be completely clear how this works with a Saas product. Of course if you are distributing binaries or source to customers then you are going to run into issues with Apache Licensing. But if you are just running code on your servers then its not so straight forward. However, I guess its likely they were distributing javascript code so that could be a problem for them. Also, I guess regardless of the licensing issues not being honest with your customers when you are a compliance company is not going to be great for business.
- nathanwh 7mo agoI don’t understand the screenshot, the “attacker” sent that to customers? Or Delve created this screenshot as a dramatic reenactment? The post is not clear
- vital_beach 7mo agotheir entire defense is "we are totally trustworthy! it's not our fault some 'bad client' opened and shared a spreadsheet we negligently used as a publicly accessible database of our fraud"
- robocat 7mo agoI love the spin: Rebuilding our auditor network and removing firms that don’t meet our standards Not "finding new auditors to replace those that want nothing to do with us and our standards were shite"
- mellosouls 7mo agoSubject being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690
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- jazzpush2 7mo agoIt's important to note that pathological liars don't stop lying. In fact, when they're caught lying red-handed, they usually double down and lie even more.
- mememememememo 7mo agoI also assume these damage control type missives to be very misleading. Seen so many of these on HN over the years.
- mememememememo 7mo agoThey sound like me when I was learning SOC2. Ooh now I think I sorta get it. Lucky for me I was a mere employee and had consultants helping me.
- pinkmuffinere 7mo agoAt the bottom of the page, I see an ad claiming “don't let manual compliance slow you down.” That really seems tone deaf lol
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- politelemon 7mo agoThere are numerous contradictions in their messaging. They admit the data matches, but is being misconstrued, but they're going to rebuild their network and reaudit customers anyway. I can only assume they've received advice on this poorly thought out message delivery from the same place they received that awkward gesture and body language coaching. I'm sorry to say that the combination comes across as insincere.
- nickvec 7mo agoWhy is this post flagged? Is Delve brigading it?
- theanonymousone 7mo agoThe founder is a Forbes 30u30 according to his X profile. As they say, you can't make these things up.
- benmmurphy 7mo agowasn't there some meme that 30u30 was some kind of predictor for fraud