Did Blind fool us?
What they promise: https://www.teamblind.com/faqs ...... Is verifying with my work email safe? Email verification is safe, as our patented infrastructure is set up so that all user account and activity information is completely disconnected from the email verification process. This effectively means there is no way to trace back your activity on Blind to an email address, because even we can’t do it. This seems counterintuitive as users use their work email to verify their professional status on Blind, but our patented infrastructure ensures your work emails are encrypted and locked away, forever. Your user activity on Blind is stored in a completely separate server. It is impossible to match your user activity to any profile or email information provided upon sign up. ...... however here https://www.teamblind.com/article/Today-a-guy-made-post-with-title-Things-to-take-care-of-before-dying”-zoc5RSxY people contacted “Blind co-founder” (?) and he/she said will contact that guy from BlackRocks and let community know if he is OK
BlindI’ve been so intrigued by this question ever since I found blind, how did blind gain the trust of people who work with software day in day out and know how vulnerable systems are - all you need is one weak link. What convinced early adopters about the security aspect of blind’s infrastructure? “Patented” is a marketing word to me, specially when it comes to security - closed source proprietary implementation (even though the patent details might be in public domain), how much can you trust? Unfortunately I don’t have any security/pentesting background - if someone could share the history or why they are so trusting of the platform.
I intend to keep my Koala brand after becoming ex-Oscar, but Techlead story has led me to believe I am more vulnerable than ever!
The bigger question is which offer did you accept 😆 ... now that you bring up techlead, I’m tempted to jump to conclusion.
Found the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9439072B2/en
In that thread the cofounder said they contacted BlackRock (the company), not the guy
Ah, I missed that. My faith in humanity is restored!