[SiliconBeach] Re: Rate my pitch... whitelabelsecurity.com

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Shea
You've taken the garbage idea of penetration testing and made it faster and cheaper, you'll make a mint. You may think I'm being snarky, but I'm not. Penetration testing is a waste of time and energy, beyond having been written in to several standards by self-interested sponsors, there is no

Re: [SiliconBeach] The Hypnotoad Job Ad with a 40.41% CTR

2012-04-30 Thread Rob Shea
Looks like insanity wolf instead of courage wolf... which um... Hopefully this won't go too far: "Desired skills: A solid understanding of what OP is." Also, I really would have expected an "inb4: copyright." Insanity wolf is public domain, Hypnotoad is the property of Fox and I do wonder if u

[SiliconBeach] Re: Learning to program

2012-03-20 Thread Rob Shea
Have you seen this? http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00sc-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-spring-2011/ It sounds like you have a slightly different course agenda, but that might be helpful inspiration and such. -- You received this messag

[SiliconBeach] Re: EU Hosting and Data Privacy

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Shea
>1. If they can gain root access to the machine >2. If they can legally force you to give them access with the threat of >shutting down your business or placing you in gaol Why would root access give them access to the private keys? This would be very bad key management. #2 applies basically to ev

[SiliconBeach] Re: EU Hosting and Data Privacy

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Shea
On Mar 1, 11:06 pm, Rob Manson wrote: > RTFM > > And if you think it's as clear cut as just using encryption then I have > a bridge I'd like to sell you. > > roBman > Please, for the benefit of us all... lay "TFM" out for all of us. How is data encryption insufficient for preventing access by t

[SiliconBeach] Re: EU Hosting and Data Privacy

2012-03-01 Thread Rob Shea
On Mar 1, 3:42 pm, Rob Manson wrote: > If you host your data in the US then it is covered by the Patriot Act > and the hosting provider may both be compelled to provide your data to > official agencies upon request AND not be allowed to notify you that > this has happened. > > For us we're willi

[SiliconBeach] Re: Pricing for SaaS

2012-02-15 Thread Rob Shea
Whatever the market will bear... as long as it covers expenses of course. How do you know? Ask them! Maybe you could set-up a free trial with a survey that included various feedback fishing, including budget questions. I think you'll find a huge divide between public and private schools as well

[SiliconBeach] Re: e-commerce platforms - what to use?

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Shea
hear other people's perspectives on this. > > roBman > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 16:49 -0800, Rob Shea wrote: > > Good! ;) > > > You wouldn't believe how many start-ups follow the path of least > > resistance with regards t

[SiliconBeach] Re: e-commerce platforms - what to use?

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Shea
ails are stored with > the bank so that adds a level of security too. > > roBman > > > > > > > > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 16:34 -0800, Rob Shea wrote: > > "And because we store the users credit card details and offer them one- > > click style purcha

[SiliconBeach] Re: e-commerce platforms - what to use?

2012-02-11 Thread Rob Shea
"And because we store the users credit card details and offer them one- click style purchasing our sales are really taking off!" And you're PCI-DSS compliant, of course? Storing credit card details or any protected information is very risky for start-ups and should only be done if it is core busi