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Meet Mårten Mickos, Serial Open Source CEO (Video)
Marten was the MySQL CEO who built the company from a small-time free software database developer into a worldwide software juggernaut he sold to Sun Microsystems. Next, he became CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, another open source operation, which Hewlett Packard bought in 2014. Now Mårten is CEO of hackerone, a company that hooks security-worried companies up with any one of thousands of ethical hackers worldwide.
Some of those hackers might be companies that grew out of university CS departments, and some of them may be individual high school students working from their kitchen tables. Would a large company Board of Directors trust a kid hacker who came to them with a bug he found in their software? Probably not. But if Mårten or one of his hackerone people contacts that company, it's likely to listen -- and set up a bug bounty program if they don't have one already.
Essentially, once again Mårten is working as an intermediary between technically proficient people -- who may or may not conform to sociey's idea of a successful person -- and corporate executives who need hackers' skills and services but may not know how to find non-mainstream individuals or even know the difference between "hackers" and "crackers." Editor's note: I have known and respected Mårten for many years. If this interview seems like a conversation between two old friends, it is.
Some of those hackers might be companies that grew out of university CS departments, and some of them may be individual high school students working from their kitchen tables. Would a large company Board of Directors trust a kid hacker who came to them with a bug he found in their software? Probably not. But if Mårten or one of his hackerone people contacts that company, it's likely to listen -- and set up a bug bounty program if they don't have one already.
Essentially, once again Mårten is working as an intermediary between technically proficient people -- who may or may not conform to sociey's idea of a successful person -- and corporate executives who need hackers' skills and services but may not know how to find non-mainstream individuals or even know the difference between "hackers" and "crackers." Editor's note: I have known and respected Mårten for many years. If this interview seems like a conversation between two old friends, it is.
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Would a large company Board of Directors trust a kid hacker who came to them with a bug he found in their software? Probably not.
What is a "kid hacker"? I've reported vulnerabilities to large organisations and they've never asked me my age.
But if Mårten or one of his hackerone people contacts that company, it's likely to listen
Why would companies listen to the same contact from Mårten? Does he have an introductory paragraph which sounds particularly attention-grabbing? A fancy letterhead? "Dear Sir/Madam, I'm Marten, that guy who sold MySQL to Sun. What's MySQL, you say? That database for people who haven't chosen Postgres and can't afford something better. What's Sun, you say? That failed company that Oracle bought. Yes, I know Oracle's the database company... no, it's not the same as MySQL. Anyway, I'm Marten..."
-- and set up a bug bounty program if they don't have one already.
"We tell people they have bugs in their software, and try to convince them to set up a bug bounty program." Uhhh... perhaps you ought to rewrite this, as I'm sure you're not trying to suggest what this sounds like.
He's such an utter tool. Just driven by money, he doesn't actually give a shit about open source.
Obviously we have a problem. I know I can get one of those to show up here.
I've been waiting to see someone post for a while. Am I the frosty?
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Progress, perhaps?
Trying to pimp.
Trying to pimp smart people.
Go to his site to get pimped. lol nah i'm coo.
the ooyala.com video feed embedded with this article wants to infect us all with SWF/Exploit.Agent.JM trojan
how cute.
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If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
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Mårten Mickos is a very bad person because he promotes the activities of hackers, instead of trying to do the correct thing and eventually be the person to remove the word hacker from existence.
I'm not quite sure I can feel as upbeat about a man who is at least partially responsible for landing MySQL in the hands of Oracle. You know that same company that tries to slip you the Yahoo whenever you install Java.
Not to mension the milking of customers that they do whenever they change their licensing racket.