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> because two people overheard a swear word near a bad socket.

There's also an undesirable side to coworking cafe low-OPSEC.

Funny anecdote about that...

I was meeting up with a startups friend, at one of the cafes that's popular for techbros.

Before we met up, friend mentioned this guy from the startups scene, who sometimes lurks at that cafe, to steal ideas.

So friend and I are talking at the cafe about an application domain we both know. And how we're surprised no one is doing X for it, because then you could do A, B, C, etc.

I look over, and some guy has moved from his table, to sit on the floor, close to us, and just has a cat-that-got-the-canary beaming look on his face. Yes, it was the noted lurker-stealer guy.

Shortly after, an organization he's affiliated with announced a big initiative/group to do X for that application domain. Maybe just a funny coincidence.






Is the problem solved then? Is he making bank?

Ideas are useless without execution


Agreed about the importance of execution.

The anecdote is a funny way to raise awareness about OPSEC.

There's reasons that most companies don't air all their internal discussions and work publicly.

In a cafe, it can be easy to forget that.

And there really are people who actively exploit that.


> Is the problem solved then? Is he making bank?

Sounds like a missed opportunity for trolling. Discuss deliberately bad ideas openly while not admitting that is what you were doing. Imagine or watch the karmic suffering as they do something utterly idiotic like "kitty porn" of marketting footage of cats mating to cat owners who feel guilt about having their pets fixed.



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