tuesday was session 5 of FI’s san diego session. we had jon carder again, chris capdevila (with oracle, but he used to be a startup founder) and steve iverson, who’s building a green, energy efficient amazon s3-like service (at least, that’s what i got from flipping through his company’s website). we hit epic traffic on the way to the venue (we spent about 40 minutes going from the 805-5 interchange to genessee, which is the first exit and less than 2 miles away) and we swung by laguna beach to pick up a classmate whose car had died (wow, it was really beautiful), so we were all tired and stressed when we walked in (only 20 minutes late, might i add).
the presentation was meh. the investor session wasn’t terribly constructive, i thought. the presentations were ok, but i was so out of it that i wasn’t really listening. the real highlight of the session was the discussion we had at the bar after — that’s almost more interesting and helpful than the actual in-class session.
anyway, i’m looking forward to my group meeting on saturday and then class again on tuesday!
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RockYou Hack: From Bad To Worse – TechCrunch
It’s absolutely mind-boggling to me that in this day and age, companies are still storing passwords in plain text. It’s also mind-boggling to me that RockYou’s database was pwnt by SQL injection — that’s a basic thing every web developer worth their salt should be protecting against. I just can’t believe that a venture funded company (by Sequoia and Lightspeed, no less) fails so hard.