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madsen / README.md
Last active June 18, 2019 06:33
Patch Asterisk to allow verifying Twilio's secure SIP trunking

Twilio Secure Trunking with Asterisk

Twilio now allows TLS & SRTP connections with their Elastic SIP Trunking. However, there are some issues with the way they've done it that prevent Asterisk from being able to verify their server's certificate.

First of all, their documentation tells you to download the Thawte Primary Root CA, when the certificate I saw was signed with the

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chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real