kootling

Interesting but I don't think anyone would use it.

> For a period in 1987, Norsk Data was the second largest company by stock value in Norway, second only to Norsk Hydro, and employed over 4,500 people.

Interesting that a computer manufacturer was the second biggest company in Norway in 1987

> I think startups could certainly offer bug bounties. It is a nice gesture, and more importantly, platforms like HackerOne provide researchers a legal path to the disclosure of vulnerabilities.

Unfortunately most startups are obsessed with growth and don't really care about security, privacy, etc.

Honestly I'm somewhat okay with companies collecting user data. They should just make it easy to opt-out of data collection and to delete all my data (i.e., "right to be forgotten").

I don't get this. Aren't protocols basically interfaces? So the argument is "Start writing an interface, not a class?" Isn't this common knowledge? This is stuff you learn in programming 101. (I'm not trying to come off as snarky; I'm genuinely curious.)

Main point of the article (quoted):

> In 2017, Tim Cook came as close as he ever has to publicly addressing the issue. "In the US," he said, "you could have a meeting of tooling engineers, and I'm not sure you could fill the room. In China, you could fill multiple football fields."

One possible reason for this is that US education is generally broad compared to other countries. No one in America majors in "tool engineering" but a mechanical engineer could certainly be trained for the job. In other countries such as Germany and China you're more likely to follow a more narrow path (for better or worse).