Gordon Chaffee

[Herald @Herald_Dev]

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[Halvar Flake @halvarflake]

Waiting for a delayed flight, some idle thoughts on what Google needs to fix itself:

1) Find a replacement for Sundar. This person needs to be both able if articulating a coherent vision for Google as a company, *and* inspire great engineers to want to work on great problems.

[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

@rmhrisk Very nice writeup! I really hope Microsoft can return to being a security leader, and they should be trying to get you to rejoin to help in that process.

[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

@PhillipsPOBrien Yes please 🙏

[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

@argvee Excellent report! Thanks to you and the the other board members for establishing this process, writing this report, and for the many actionable recommendations. I particularly liked the very specific recommendations it makes for telecom vendors to harden the SIM swap process.

[Nan Ransohoff @nanransohoff]

“I’m a [product manager, lawyer, engineer, etc.] and I want to transition to climate work. Where should I look?”

I get a version of this question a lot. This note summarizes how I usually answer it in case it’s useful for others asking a similar question:
https://t.co/vhUDFz2GPX

[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

@ShaneHuntley Congratulations, nice to see you can return to Australia and continue defending against nation state actors while remaining at Google!

[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

This is the kind of formal analysis that I think needs to be applied much more widely in the crypto ecosystem. When trust is crucial to the ecosystem, actually ensuring code is trustworthy is critical because writing bug free code is really hard! @gf_256

[cts🌸 @gf_256]

A bug in WETH:
Wrapped ETH is a smart contract that has been in over 125 MILLION Ethereum transactions. This year, 11.5% of all transactions used Wrapped ETH.
But is it secure? I formally verified two critical safety properties with a SMT solver, Z3.👇🧵
https://t.co/KH5vLjxwnm

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

In a recent thread on crypto, I argued that crypto and tokens enabled the formation of businesses that heretofore could not be created. Some responded that cash could be used in place of tokens, and therefore the ‘innovation’ of crypto was not meaningful. I beg to differ.

[Tim Nguyen @methodtim]

I lead a team of 100 brilliant Security Engineers so I feel confident to speak with some leadership experience here: Being told you’re wrong by your team is a feature not a bug and should be rewarded with gratitude and praise and never penalized.

[Bill Higgins @BillHiggins]

🧵 I’ve been unpleasantly surprised that some people seem to condone the public criticism of employees and/or the public firing of an employee for responding to this criticism.

Here are my thoughts on these topics, which I hope would be obvious to any decent leader. (1/22)

[Tim Nguyen @methodtim]

One of the very first things I tell managers is to identify this exact dynamic as an anti-pattern.

"Look, you got to this point doing things a certain way and there was success in that. If you try to impose the six people you are managing, you will fail miserably."

[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

Excellent set of videos describing some of what Google does to help keep its infrastructure, its users, its customers, and the internet safer. Nice to have some of these things be talked about openly!

[Google @Google]

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[Google VRP (Google Bug Hunters) @GoogleVRP]

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[Gordon Chaffee @gordonchaffee]

Excited by the public launch of @Resourcely, @travismcpeak's and @0xshellrider's new startup to usage of the cloud resources more secure and easier for developers!

[Resourcely @Resourcely]

Hello world! We're on a mission to make cloud security easier for users. See our funding announcement (https://t.co/uBm6JTCAct) and blog post (https://t.co/xXLAUz4Pes) for more details.

We're #Hiring!

[Ryan Noon @internet_meme]

If you don't know him, @gordonchaffee is one of the few whose management worldview effortlessly blends people, engineering, and security thinking.

Was honored to sit down with him and discuss his philosophy and his inspirations. Highly recommend a read: https://t.co/d0VFzIrEKM