Jason Syversen

Husband/Dad, CEO @SportsVisioAI, GP @10XVP

Founded Siege Technologies, former hacker and @DARPA PM

Jsyversen on LinkedIn and Bluesky too

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

@roseajohnson @flybridge @AWSstartups @sasyrae @srcasm I am bummed to have missed it. Looks a little chaotic but sounded interesting, I'd signed up. I saw @andruyeung might be there too which was a good sign! Did they pitch on the street or was there someplace inside to go?

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

This case is super sad. George Floyd was sad but at least he had committed a crime and had a record. In this case an innocent person was stabbed and then left there to die over 60 minutes while the murdered stood nearby. Hopefully this leads to change in Britain and a return to some normalcy.

[Joe Rich @joerichlaw]

Henry Nowak’s case is worse than you think - 60 of the 67 minutes which he spent dying in the street were in the custody of police officers. They broke basic rules of policing and PACE, denying him basic first aid and compassion because they falsely believed he was a racist.

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

@UscBruin @AdamDraper @mikehsieh I beat SF2 with zero losses playing Ryu back in HS to unlock the special ending on Genesis. Good memories, took a while to make that happen!

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

Co-Hosting a basketball 3-on-3 tournament in NYC for #TechWeek! You should come this Wednesday to hang out and put a team in if you want to play with some cool founders/investors and folks who love basketball. https://t.co/Bk7sgBUE68

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

Sorry I wasn't clear, I was agreeing with you. I said "not JUST a top 5 guy". I'm pointing out that swapping two top five guys might make sense (would hurt chemistry) if for no other reason than Giannis is huge and we need a good big guy who can get buckets inside and defense Embiid/KAT/Jokic/etc.

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

So true. I hosted an investor/founder poker game in NYC for #TechWeek last year, didn’t find a facility in time to do it again this year. Had a blast taking some cash from other investors and a few founders! 😏

I love the game as it’s fun but also teaches you a lot how people think. And a way better way to network and get to know folks than just standing around drinking.

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

@C2IRIS This is funny. And true… I have a Rolodex of friends/acquaintances that would fit this description nicely. Most don’t have three cute kids though…

[Andrew Northern 𓅓 @ex_raritas]

I have found a few bugs and exploits in my time. I was once threatened with legal action, another time after much following up said company informed me that it wasn’t a bug. It was fixed in their next patch.

Everyone who I know that finds exploits has the same stories.

[SpiderM @SpiderMorpheus]

This is important. MSRC is probably the loudest worst case but check any bug hunter and they will have a myriad of cases where vendors act in bad faith.

Doing the righteous thing is good but unfortunately it does not pay the bills. We need to understand as a society that if we don't change this system, the system itself will put people in risk because "responsible" disclosure will simply not be worth it for hackers.

Hackers won't stop finding bugs, they will stop reporting them to vendors. Some will sell it, some will share it amongst their peers, some will do nothing with it. In all cases, less bugs reported mean less patches. Less patches mean more holes in your security in ways you can't truly control and by then we will be living in the 90s and 2000s again.

[Mike Felch (Stay Ready) @ustayready]

Another MSRC story.. Around 2015, I found a sandbox escape in their cloud version of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server which allowed breaking out of the trusted build environment. It didn't "meet the bar". No bounty, just a MSRC coin and BlackHat Party invite. smh.

[Mike Felch (Stay Ready) @ustayready]

Since we are on the MSRC drama bandwagon.. I'll share a story. Microsoft sent their attorneys after me in 2009, shutting down all my hosting servers and registrar account using DMCA despite not hosting any Microsoft products. All for some research I did against Microsoft COFEE.

[boosted Bobby Tables @KiPos_info]

In 2024 I reported a security bypass to MSRC. They payed the bounty but didnt fix the issue yet. But now @MSFTSecSuppTeam @msftsecresponse is threatening me if I - according to their own timelines - disclose that issue and "enable criminal activities".

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

I just wrote my first X "article" (mostly to include random stories I had Claude dig up) about the many times Microsoft has done this sort of thing over the years: https://t.co/862b0Whuje

There are TONS of other examples. X is filled with them today. https://t.co/HwUejTSaIN, https://t.co/3rbYWNC2gx, https://t.co/2Ymo4luEAw, https://t.co/w6W3uMfZT8

[zodttd @zodttd]

Microsoft ridiculed a researcher reporting very serious bugs to them, deleted his account, and no bug bounties were paid. These should be high payouts. Now $MSFT is threatening legal action and speaking as if a researcher’s proof of concept code is illegal.

This is because the unappreciated researcher released more zero-day vulnerabilities on his own and had those GitHub/Lab accounts banned.

They were serious enough that Microsoft is scrambling to fix them but wasn’t serious enough to be paid or recognized, instead was ridiculed.

News of the Nightmare Eclipse exploits are everywhere but read the personal blog of the researcher, Nightmare Eclipse:

https://t.co/SuSxBr5oT4

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

https://t.co/NhTck73jhF

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

Great first day of #TechWeek! Did a call on my way into Boston, then met with a VC I co-invested with recently, a friend portfolio company preparing for their A round and our banker. Then a great emerging VC sushi dinner and https://t.co/vov5r5yNkq poker tournament. (Yes, I made money in case you were wondering!)

Tomorrow will be even better, speaking on a panel in the morning then tons of good meetings and events and a 3-on-3 tech basketball tournament to end the night before I drive home.

[Tech Week @Techweek_]

Day 1 and the energy is insane in Boston.

And we still have 500+ events to go

https://t.co/c8HOHckokN

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

@SoilManDan @andruyeung

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

That's one way to interpret the chart. But splitting out evangelical protestant as a different "religion" than "mainline protestant" or "historically black protestant" seems a bit suspect.

Although to be fair Agnostic and "nothing in particular" are also probably the same thing? So it's really 45% Christian (25% protestant, 20% catholic but they're all the same "religion"), 37% agnostic/unsure, and 11% atheist, and 7% "other".

[Jason Syversen @JSyversen]

@ChrisMaidmentNH I mean, did you see who they elected instead? I'm disappointed I've ever remotely identified myself with the LP (and even voted that way once!) Won't happen again...