Guideline materially and repeatedly breached their fiduciary duties under ERISA.
Their definition of when an expense is “incurred” varies materially from case to case and diverged substantially in almost all of them from IRS guidance. Multiple times, a customer service agent said—in writing—the last person I interacted with misrepresented something material that I had subsequently acted on.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I am describing my personal experiences. Don’t cite this comment if you decide to pursue these fuckwits.
The pattern across their repo is concerning: rebranding documented system features as "exploits."
Their GPU "hijacking" demo has the victim deliberately publish CUDA IPC handles to world-readable shared memory (0666), then calls normal CUDA IPC functionality an "attack."
Their eBPF paper on ArXiv lacks evaluation or performance metrics.
The company appears to be three people: the founder and his two teenage sons (10th and 8th grade) listed as paper co-authors. No customers, no team page, launched right before college application season. The technical work exists but reads like it's optimized for admissions committees rather than advancing security research.
LD_PRELOAD has been a standard Linux feature since the 90s. Calling it "The Invisible Key Theft" and pitching an eBPF product as the solution misrepresents both the threat model and what constitutes novel security research.
A masters program isn’t typically focused on research. I don’t actually care about taking classes; I just want to do research. A thesis-based masters is just training for a PhD, so I would rather do the PhD.
I don’t know what’s next after the PhD. It could be another FAANG job, founding a startup, or really anything. A PhD definitely does not help get me there. It’s just a personal goal
If you're already in an R&D position, what kind of research do you think you can do in a PhD setting that you can't do now?
A whole lot of comp sci research doesn't need a lot of resources, so you can do that anywhere, it's just a question of time.
Some research needs lots of computer time and/or lots of real world data. You likely have access to more advanced computers/more computer time at a FAANG, at least in theory (getting to use it is something else) as well as real world data.
What does a credential do for you here that FAANG on your resume doesn't?
There are two benefits in doing research at an academic institution:
1. You have access to paywalled papers. The majority of leading edge research is published in high subscription fee journals.
2. You gain a great deal of knowledge and build international network of contacts by attending conferences and collaborating with others. Sabbaticals are another form of leverage.
The paywall can be bypassed by just going to the library or enrollment in a single class. You could probably even buy/rent a students account and use that for remote login.
The latter though you really have to figure out if that’s worth doing unpaid labor for. Seems like you could leverage your existing industry position to network with professors better then you could as a phd student. You could reach out to professors of interest and offer to mentor their phd student in the ways of industry or help them find jobs and use that as leverage to get access to folks you are interested in
