When there's a need there's a way. I find it interesting how the need to ship sewing machines across the US had triggered building entire railroads

Up! Great one, thanks for reminding me of it.

Seconded!

Check out entrepreneurial networking events in your area! Also, give Facebook groups a try, they're booming right now.

Second joining startup networks. I graduated from a startup incubator and it is a small world. You'll meet lots of driven entrepreneurs. There are so many non-technical founders that would love to have a tech co-founder (me-included).

If you have access check out demo days. You'll meet lots of founders working on interesting things as well as investors.

I'm in NYC so we have tons of meetups on all kinds of tech from different types of SQL, data science/AI/ML, blockchain, food tech, hardware, Python, women coders, etc, and whenever you go to one of these events, you will always find someone working on something interesting. Maybe see if there's a local meet-up on an industry you're interested in?

I also recommend hackathons. Could you be a mentor at local hackathons? I went to my first hackathon and met lots of driven people who were willing to spend 12+ hours mentoring or coding on the weekend.

I also heard on a Jason Calacanis podcast episode that a great place to find a co-founder are employees of acquired startups- because they see it's possible and think I can do that too, so they caught the bug.

There's also websites to find co-founders too but I didn't really gain anything from it.

I don't have 5 questions, but I have one that I always, always ask: what's your story? The reason is, you want to dig deeper into the human inside. Don't let them focus the answer on the "shallow" story, but rather on what drives them, why they do what they do, why they started this company, how did they overcome challenges, and so on. Well, now I guess you have about 5 questions =)

To each their own method of delivering value. If this employee found a way to deliver and make the client happy with "normal" working hours, then good on them. I would congratulate and promote!

Yeah right. Good luck hacking back when most attacks are relayed through zombie devices.

Why do you assume your imagined incompetent whitehats are incapable of differentiating zombie hosts from C&C and other meaningful infrastructure?

Because competent whitehats sound expensive to contract

No one paid Marcus Hutchins. He just acted. (And look what what that got him.)

Sounds a lot like "guys, you should NEVER delete cookies or the world would crumble."

It's exactly what Zuckerberg added as a disclaimer if you were to choose to use their new feature.

Spot on. In marketing, it's called "teasing". Definitely generates more hype and makes them look like heroes...

This is no joke. It reminds me of when Skype used to be secure then somehow a backdoor was introduced following (or before?) the acquisition by Microsoft. History repeats itself, and humans have yet to learn from the past.

In this case, strong E2E encryption was introduced after the acquisition (though presumably it had been in the works previously).

OK! I was referring to this and it was before the acquisition indeed: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-Provided-Backdoor-Acce...

Pardon my skepticism, but Microsoft has most definitely advertised to the TLAs that Skype communications are available for review.

14 years ago, it was reported on... Windows XP. PS: I do miss XP.

I have a VM that I have to fire up every once in a awhile to deal with a Delphi 7 app if you feel really sentimental.