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While cybersecurity might seem like the sort of problem that requires layers upon layers of tightly-locked proprietary software, the truth is that constant iteration and collaboration is significantly more effective at combating new threats quickly. To learn more about the benefits of open-source work in cybersecurity, and the way that cyber has changed in the past handful of decades, we spoke with Michael Shinn, CEO of Atomicorp.
[...] SHINN: Yeah. So you know, my colleagues in the open source community may have their own sort of different definitions about what they think open source is. But for me, open source has always been about the fact that if there’s something that I wanted to change in the software, I could do it. And that’s really the core. There are lots of other benefits of open source. It might be free, there might be a lot of people working on it, maybe there’s a community. But for me, it always started with the fact that I had a piece of software that I’m using, and I can make enhancements, changes and fixes
ABERMAN: True hacker culture.
SHINN: That’s right. And in cybersecurity, that’s really important. There’s lots of really smart people out there. It’s not possible for any cybersecurity vendor to understand every possible situation in which their product might be used. The people who are going to understand that are the people who are closest to the problem. And it’s great if you can make it possible for them to enhance your software, and hopefully contribute that back to you. All boats rise together. So in the security world, we see some of the more interesting or powerful cybersecurity technologies, like snort, it blew away all of the other network based IDS’s that were out there, all the proprietary ones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 01 2019, @06:16PM (4 children)
Shinn then spends the remainder of the interview not answering this fundamental question. I still have no idea what Atomicorp actually does.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 01 2019, @06:42PM (2 children)
Atomicorp [atomicorp.com] appreciates your confusion. We'd love to alleviate that confusion, but if we told you, we'd have to kill you.
So. Even though you asked nicely, we're not going to tell you anything. What's more, there's absolutely no information about what we do on our website [atomicorp.com].
Thank you for your interest and inquiry.
--I.B. Shidingya
Director, Bureau of Unanswered Legal and Liability Systems Hosted In Technology (BULLSHIT) Department
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday July 01 2019, @09:49PM (1 child)
You do the cloud. That's equivalent to contemplating the cosmos - or your navel - while high. Amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 01 2019, @10:01PM
Yeah, and that little ho loves it too!We can neither confirm nor deny your assertion [atomicorp.com].
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