I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure

Once did some programming/networking work for a company that did the networking of a office sharing building that Coinbase was running out of. Early in my work there I noticed that the company had its admin passwords written on a whiteboard -- visible from the hallway because they had glass for walls. So I sent them an email to ask that they remove it (I billed them for it).

Their fix was to put a piece of paper over the passwords.

What a time.

> So I sent them an email to ask that they remove it (I billed them for it)

Sending unsolicited bills for unrequested services is a great way to make sure nobody takes your email seriously

GP is saying that they were already one of Coinbase's vendors (they did the networking/IT setup for Coinbase's office). Whether you'd tolerate that kind of behavior from a vendor is one thing, but for an existing vendor relationship I think adding a few billable hours for "I found this issue in your network and documented and reported it for you" to an existing contract is not particularly unreasonable.

s/cloudflare/coinbase/

One day while driving, I received a call from a technical recruiter at Stripe. I told them about how much I admired their developer first approach, the Atlas program for startups, etc. Later that day, I looked up the recruiter on LinkedIn and realized they worked at Square, not Stripe!

I do this all the time with Shopify / Spotify. The number of times non-tech friends have had to ask what Shopify is when discussing music and I slip up :/