This can't be because the most advanced unit in the entire United States Military reminded the world that, last month, they already played the trump card can it?
Nah; that must be a coincidence. After all, why would somebody after the US Military try to convince people that their security was better? Do you honestly think Yahoo has better stuff than the Tony Stark of the armed forces?
Please. Let's see, Ycombinator's got some ex-Yahoo's as alumni, I'm sure they'll chime in and disagree with me any moment. Yep yep. Bring it.
Sorry, but did you even read either article before posting your unintelligible conspiracy theory? One does packet parsing and the other verifies ability to assess webapp vulnerabilities.
Dshell was released on December 17th; last month. Press release from the US Army on Jan 28th (3 days ago...) would be a better, more official source than this blog.
The guy looks, imho, a bit like Tony Stark. That's pretty cool, the money quote is this one: "If soldiers eat it, wear it, touch it, fly it, ride it or ship it, we make it." Makers. Gotta love 'em. Funny timing, December 17th is 4 days after my patent pending in cryptography. Then, the press release was same day I offered a small amount for my company, publicly.
Media's taken a few days to catch up, or a few weeks, depending on your POV.
If this isn't lies, and you live in a country with IP laws, it's easy:
Step 1. Validate your claim is legit; documentation and everything goes a long way. Archive.org is actionable in court (for fun, I put up an article on how I can invalidate several Microsoft patents, due to my prior art from 2000 - the patent was in 2008).
Step 2. Get in touch with your own lawyers, after getting some advice on RocketLawyer or similar. To whit, I could not get a lawyer to take my case last year, despite prior case rules in California, referral from a District Attorney AND a victory in California court through mediation, with more charges still pending against the startup.
Step 3. Assuming even like me, you have legal precedent, history and proof - you need funding. Apparently, as I have found, nobody gives a !@#$@$ in the United States of America about actual crime. I've got a ton of documentation, the only thing I have yet to do is literally CALL the police, and ask, point blank, "Why is that man not in jail?"
Step 4. Now that you how hard this uphill battle is guaranteed to be, if you have the proof, if you have the lawyer friends, finally - do you have the money? Can you get it? If that's true on both, review your stomach, because it'll be a long, hard battle. Family, friends and business associates have all "Disowned me," for various reasons, even though I was the victim. Unreal, but true. See Gamergate as well - the victim loses in the modern USA, at least. Other countries, like Maldives, Costa Rica - the victim also loses.
Step 5. Prepare to lose your professional reputation, even if you win in mediation. I'd love to say that if you win in court, like Michael Jackson before you, that somehow, people realize it wasn't you who did wrong. However, sadly, many people still believe he's a pedophile, many people don't believe I was robbed and fired while my boss was in Hawaii, my step-dad in hospital with 10% chance to live.
Sorry, bro. If you want a referral to awesome lawyers, I'm happy to help and do whatever it takes to help somebody. I care. I just wish other people would, too.
Litigating this is both foolhardy and an uphill battle. Even if he can prove that they weren't giving proper credit, it's extremely hard to prove damages when there is an open source license.
Proving damages, with open source on the backs of funding, is relatively easy for an attorney with startup experienc, knows how much it costs to build a brand + reputation, etc. Then you can put together a financial model on, "Opportunity cost," re-coup it in a civil case, on top of and after the criminal case is finished. A good law firm will file both separately.
Nice, though, for crapping on his chances. I love the positive thinking.
They have every right to use his software. Under the Apache license, they typically don't even have to publicly admit to using it.
Their only fault is likely glossing over the exact details of what code they wrote and what code they licensed, and even that only in private with investors.
I just don't see how there's any sort of case here. They haven't infringed on any IP.
Certainly not criminal. The Apache license has stipulations for attribution, if someone is claiming your copyrighted work as their own and stripping attributions to attain funds then it could be argued that the code was distributed among them against the license and with the intention of violating it for financial gain.
Sounds like attributions are intact. The startup might be misrepresenting things to investors in conversations, but if the actual code attribution is in place then it'd be very difficult to prove a violation of the license.
So, thanks for the downvote. I had a suspicion, given the venom, then reviewed your LinkedIn profile.
Before saying, "There is no criminal case," review some facts - and the legal aspects of state vs nation in the US of A. If a law passes in say, New York - it doesn't impact people in my home state of California. It can be used as precedent...but, seriously.
I've gone toe to toe with multiple governments about their own legal system and Neither of us is a lawyer...right? Right. So, as I mentioned, get somebody qualified, pursue both sets of charges. Financial fraud and racketeering, given the nature of the issue (VC funding) are Federal, not State, issues.
Wow. Please, please next time if it's legal, you're not a lawyer and have zero experience...let the adults talk who have been there. My 14 year old knows the American legal system better, who hasn't lived here two years, and holds multiple passports.
Take it from somebody who's shaken hands with the Indian High Commissioner of a country, chatted up many members of the State Bank of India and who's friends with a venture capitalist that takes investing in, and expanding, domestic infrastructure for cleaner air, water and electricity very seriously. He's setup many electric generations facilities, water generation facilities and more.
Given my background with the Indian government (nope, not Indian here) you're out of luck. The only way to "Save, earn, etc," with your situation is the exact same as I went through as a poor American, owing (today, 15 years after graduation) more than $35,000 dollars for my college degree. That's more money than I earned in the last eight months - and, I have two children, the IRS also claims I owe them about a ton of money, but thanks to finally catching up on filings, it's a smaller number - or soon will be.
Friend, it is hard for people who know billionaires, who know people, shook their hand and made them millions via Ycombinator and others (I got turned down, but, applied late).
The facts are the following:
* Nobody owes you a living, period. If they do, we're all standing in line and it's not moving.
* Save money. If it's a Penny, a Pound or a Franc, it matters.
* Create works - code, write, etc - so when and if you CAN publish, you're ready. Even if you develop skills that you can't use, nobody can EVER steal what's in your head. :)
Finally on a very, very serious note. Everybody has a sob story. My mom's currently a cancer survivor; my step dad has been on dialysis for a decade and thank goodness they are poor enough the US government pays for their medical treatment - or they'd already be dead. Life can be hard, it generally can suck, but, you own what you know. Knowledge is power. Stop whining in public, produce, learn and grow. Most of us, here on a "dot com," address are global, or rather, "Not Indian," so won't be able to give you the best advice.
However, if the goal was, "Learn how to compete with the best & brightest," this is a fantastic place. Sympathy is hard to find, but positive, productive suggestions - hard work, acquire knowledge - are the real keys to growth.
Sir, I am not cribbing. Rather asking for help to focus my effort in more fruitful direction, the foresight of which I lack, so that at the end of it, I have a reasonable chance of coming out on the top.
Near as I can tell, you sound a bit like my javascript skills - that's not where I choose to focus though. My CTO, co-founder (we got rejected by Ycombinator, but, also applied super late) is a self taught programmer who, if you read what he writes, doesn't know a whole lot.
However, he's a genius. I'm 100% certain you have skills you aren't aware of, at your age, non "Tech," town, well, it's always possible you're better than us in the valley.
Write down what you want to do. Step, by step. Start a business or be an employee? Caution: too much self employment makes people not want to hire you as an employee. Ever. I was self employed for five years, took six months to find a job; this time, took that long so I'm staying self employed because groveling and begging isn't what I'm about.
I might be starving, but, I have dignity.
Next, after you have those goals identified, it's time to review the financial options, talk it through with your fiancee ideally so you're both on the same page (my ex-wife of 13 years was also the co-founder of my first 10 businesses, trust me, it sucks to lose a wife, or a business partner - sucks worse when you lose both).
Consider doing contracting, don't worry about it being on your resume, or not, while you explore and make enough money to slowly pad the bank account.
Since you did mention angular, and even though we're broke, we have a very powerful, open source social media & SEO tool that we're giving away. The project is gaining a lot of traction and if you contribute even a bit, we can definitely help promote you and your skills.
Plus, if some nice VC decides that my team and I are going to take over the world, we hire remote and don't have a central office. 3 team members now, hiring an intern next week who's a PhD candidate with experience in natural language processing.
Contact info in profile, and whatever you do, make sure it's your dreams you are following. Only those will lead to any kind of meaningful happiness.
Eff.org did similar a while back; also, browsing habits for years have been clearly a "Fingerprint," same as the keystrokes, depth, etc, were found recently on a monitor.
Even better, creepier, was the government study 15 years ago that could identify people by how they walk, only, via video camera / surveillance.
Or, remember the AOL study? That was only IP addresses, and many people were "Unmasked," this was meta data / search logs, only and identified individuals. That was a decade back. Seemingly, this article only uses citations that are 0-4 years old, it's been a well trod issue for a while, even in journalistic circles.
Let's see: I tell everybody I'm broke. I caught up on ten years of back due tax paperwork. I'm clean, sober and have been for months...just launched free, open source no strings software to end $5 billion in annual American wasted spend on Facebook, Twitter and SEO tools that are mostly junk.
Yep, zero people care. They didn't get a push notification from Google Now, telling them to put down the phone and give to hookupJS. They didn't see Jeff Weiner tweet, "Jeremy, you haven't sent me an SEO weekly report since Yahoo, 2005 - what are the latest numbers?"
Automattic, makers of the best content management software in the world, have a similar philosophy as we do - give it away, free and open source, then chase the value that the open ecosystem creates. Alongside WordPress, hookupJS is designed to be a secure, open source marketing Saas - self hosted, no data leaks and 100% private for business data.
However, the crowd funding yeilded only spam, private comments so far. The LinkedIn messages have been well meaning, but, zero text lines read. The single, solitary fork we got on our repo (software is live, functional and free - on github) practically made me cry.
I don't get it. For some reason, I agree, the feeling in my gut says, "Nobody cares." When I was drinking, I checked into a mental hospital for a few days because I was going nuts, getting stolen from by my former employer and worse.
It is an excellent article. Ignore me, just go read it. Then take a walk, smell the fresh air, and for once in the week, try to figure out if you are inside the Matrix, or if the mesh layer is already controlling you. Put down the hololens, the nerd helmets and the Occulus. Take a look at real life, in 3d. It's awesome.
Fantastic article and in the past seven months, we've been a basecamp user, then former basecamp user, as we switched to Trello. Ironically that was for cost, like switching from 3rd party to (finally) a home grown php tool to replace the Saas $200 fee.
Essentially, what we're seeing from my team's perspective are the culmination of a few trends that started being bigger back in 2003, when I first worked from home full time for about six months, prior to joining Yahoo at giving up the lifestyle for a few years. With nearly ~6.5 years in WFH experience; I've done it nearly half my professional career.
Those who can make it work, do it the way in the article, there's no option, only pain, to that process. It broke up a 12 year business partnership I had, in the end, written goals were broken, therefore, I ejected. Simple, straightforward and asynchronous. There's a movement, tempo to when a team is producing. My CTO and I are incredible partners this way, and we spend less than twenty minutes per session "Talking," because he's even more introvert than me, it seems.
At the end of the day, team's ship something. Marketers should be shipping business models, spreadsheets, powerpoints, Adwords copy, Blog Posts, Social Posts, Images, Videos and more. Engineers ship code, so, they rock and should have it a bit more straightforward.
Designers ship design. If the "Business monkey," isn't playing secretary, documenting things and helping others ship, OR shipping something with their fingerprints all over it, something is broken. For a production oriented individual, remote, WFH work is the most empowering kind.
Freedom. Run at your own pace, if the team gets slow, develop new skills, a new hobby and explore. The digital world is a vast place; for example, I'm building free, open source SaaS, running two blogs, a team, built two visual novels this month, learned Daz3d, Carrara, Gimp for animation & more.
I ship what and how I want, when I want & where. The team does the same, as a group, we have aligned objectives. So the business moves at one pace, and as an individual, I carve my own lane. Run ahead, scout, explore, learn and grow. Then perhaps, those skills in animation & 3d become useful to the business. Or not. Time will tell.
Great article, and thanks for posting your experiences. I love learning.
I have a free, open source software on github. Is this the kind of thing that would be featured in the tips for designers & developers? It's a bit hard to figure out what kind of tips, without a sample / preview of the content you're going to send...
Renyi entropy, and why this discovery is huge, are the whole cipher / counter cipher structure of modern "Crypto." If we (for a moment) hypothesis that math, itself, is an artiface of culture...then, we see that Lofti Zadeh (thank him for the 'net) and Bart Kosko's math model of the hypercube are still the best proofs.
Eg, to a large degree, Yitang Zhang validated both gentleman's work immensely, as Bart, in particular, first proved that the whole 100% of "Probability," is in fact a subset of continuum theory, aka, Fuzzy Logic. It's the "Probability and the hypercube," model, put forth in Kosk's 90's book. Fascinating reading.
Of course, it could be that, the model is too simple, to elegant to "fly," as we Americans like complex stuff that is far, far out of reach of lay people. It's an academic bias that I, with no degree holding family, simply do not share or partake in. Truly breakthrough discovery can, and does, happen in a lot of places.
http://www.army.mil/article/141734/Army_cyber_defenders_open...
Nah; that must be a coincidence. After all, why would somebody after the US Military try to convince people that their security was better? Do you honestly think Yahoo has better stuff than the Tony Stark of the armed forces?
Please. Let's see, Ycombinator's got some ex-Yahoo's as alumni, I'm sure they'll chime in and disagree with me any moment. Yep yep. Bring it.