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InsanityBit
@InsanityBit
Biggest impact will be AWS if they manage to actually widely distribute keys. We'll see. If every account that paid for support got a free key, that'd move the needle.
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Eric Geller
@ericgeller
Embargo has lifted on WH cyber meeting announcements. * Microsoft: offering $150m worth of security help to govt agencies * Google: donating $100m to help orgs that secure open-source software * Amazon: free security tokens for AWS users * IBM: cyber training for 150k people
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InsanityBit
@InsanityBit
Interestingly, seems that the vast majority of responses disagree. 100m+ for "security" is not real value. Free tokens that can be applied to any service (not just AWS) is (potentially) huge and, most importantly, addresses a REAL threat, not just "make security better".
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InsanityBit
@InsanityBit
IMO AWS showed everyone else up here. Addressed a real problem, helps their direct customers be safe across services, didn't have to spend 100M+ on nothing.
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diagprov
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If Google gave money to
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or something like this, or funded development/donated to critical infrastructure, that's not a bad contribution IMO. Lifting OpenSSL out of its previously underfunded state was a massive boost to everyone's security (for example).
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