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> To be clear, I'm not sales-phobic or anti-design, I just don't think that security vulnerabilities need to be marketed. I understand this worry, but I don't
by hawkice 12y ago
> To be clear, I'm not sales-phobic or anti-design, I just don't think that security vulnerabilities need to be marketed.
I understand this worry, but I don't think executives will ever see sites like this... except when engineers say HOLY HANNAH WE NEED HOURS TO FIX THIS RIGHT NOW, and the executive says "I have a fixed budget, and this doesn't make me money."
Then this site is brought up. And the world is better.
- yzzxy 12y agoHmm. So maybe, within the bowels of listservs and whitepaper archives, we hide a secret repository of slick, sexy marketing pdfs that engineers can print, cover in a shiny plastic folder, and strategically deploy as a measure of last resort. Or just work to make developer<->management communications more effective.
- hawkice 12y agoI think you've captured the absurdity of the scenario quite well. Unfortunately, I don't have quite the poker face to pull off a claim like "developer <-> management communications aren't absurd". To be slightly more fair: it's pretty easy to think "if solving this problem was really important, it would already have a budget, like how hurricanes get disaster relief". And so spending $100 on a logo helps people not dismiss the urgency. This whole situation is not amazing. But an emergency isn't the time to start working on developer <-> management communication problems -- at that point, whatever gets the job done is great.