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heathl··on Ask HN: Have any of you left a startup that was selling snake oil?
It's questioning the ethics of lying, not the production advantages of being unethical.

The two of you have different priorities. You are both right and both wrong.

It's not really the kind of thing that requires a citation. However it's trivial to Google and see there are a whole range of opinions on the matter.

heathl··on Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day
It's not a security professional saying this though. It's a politician.

You can never be 100%, you're right. You can be aware of common attack vectors and address them though. You can be aware of what resources are most vital to protect or are common targets in your industry and focus your efforts.

Most people actually in security will tell you the same.

heathl··on Is Firefox lying to users about viruses in downloads?
It would depend on the exploit. For a simple example, an exploit that was a result of a flaw in the file specification could result in it being cross platform.

It's going to be rarer to find something of that scope, maybe even to the point of you being effectively right.

heathl··on Cutter – A Qt and C++ GUI for Radare2 reverse engineering framework
https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freew...

Version 7 is freeware now. Sure you don't get the decompiler and you're limited on target architectures, but it's still an amazing piece of software.