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This is why we at http://testingbot.com provide a pristine virtual machine every single time when offering browser testing.

After the test is done, libvirt destroys the machine to make sure nobody else can see what you did with the virtual machine during testing.

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There presumably are independent process auditors that would come in and validate your claims about your systems. AFAICT Browserstack were claiming to be entirely secure too.

Hey! A founders gotta do what a founders gotta do! Nice timing.

Wow, that's just wrong... really?

How is it wrong? If someone was promoting their product in conjunction to some loss of life, or tragedy, that would be wrong.

A service is proven unsecure, so a founder provides his companies alternative product.

@defied is basing his promotion of his/her product on an email from a hacker. BrowserStack hasn't yet explained what happened exactly. That means that he/she believes the email from the attacker? This is just wrong. He/she is trying to use an event he/she might know nothing about.

Even huge companies like Google get hacked. So saying that you can do better just because someone got hacked is just ridiculous. It's about how the hack was handled and what information was disclosed that matters IMO. From what BrowserStack says, it seems like only a few emails addresses were disclosed. I'm not saying that this is bad. But this could have happened to any other company. Everything in the fake email is probably bull---- (has anyone tried to find out if anything in it was true?).

They've confirmed via Twitter this happened. If a company has a serious security breach requiring them to take their entire fleet of servers offline, I'd say it's prime time for advertising a competitor.

Yes, they did. But as I said, they didn't given much detail. But they did say that only a few emails were disclosed. If you call that "serious", then OK, but it could be much worse. The competitor is just profiting from something no one has any real information about and is basing himself on an email sent by a hacker: great!

Seriously!!! Marketing your product here.

If this isn't the best timing then I don't know what is.

You just lost a customer.

I refuse to use your service any longer after this shameful and down right unprofessional self promotion.

Testingbot is FAR from anything close to a perfect product and sometimes border line even a good product at all.

This is HK, self promotion is a core part of the ethos. The whole place is very natural selection-ee, survival of the fittest, and so on... It isn't like Reddit where self-promotion is seen negatively.

I mean you'll often have two or three startups posting around here all working in the same thing. So there is going to be self promotion.

In my view the above post isn't unprofessional. Why? Because they didn't criticise or pile-on BrowserStack, they simply said: "Want an alternative? We have an alternative! <link>."

Is it self-promotion? Yes. Is that wrong? No. It is unprofessional? Also no. Could they have been unprofessional? Yes: if they had criticised BrowserStack DIRECTLY in public.

Also you're a first-post throw away. Do you work for BrowserStack by any chance?

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