u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
These seem to be about two unrelated things:
RE: Codesmith's comments about Reddit, I don't think there is much new in the additional responses. The tone does seem a little more focused on "attacks" and not so much opinionated commentary, and I appreciated that there is acknowledgement that all feedback is not an attack, because I have felt from my perspective that fair feedback was being perceived as an attack and maybe it's wasn't or isn't, or the tone has changed.
RE: The general Slack post, wow that's a can of worms there that seems out of nowhere.
1. I saw those job postings too! There were three roles for PHP developers in Kolkata, India. I didn't read the actual postings but I saw them on LinkedIn.
2. So there are TEN COMPANIES NAMED "Codesmith" that all do software, and I my initial hunch there was that these were legit job postings attributed to the wrong Codesmith. I might be wrong and it might be an attack, so that's really interesting if it was. But anyways, I don't think any of these Codesmiths have trademarks, so again to [Swami218](https://www.reddit.com/user/Swami218/) about IP management concerns, this is the common kind of thing that happens when IP isn't managed.
[https://www.linkedin.com/school/codesmith-llc/](https://www.linkedin.com/school/codesmith-llc/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithdev/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithdev/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithteam/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithteam/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmith-systems/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmith-systems/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-codesmith/about/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-codesmith/about/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmith-solutions/about/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmith-solutions/about/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithtech/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithtech/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmith-tools/about/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmith-tools/about/)
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithtechnology/about/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/codesmithtechnology/about/)
3. PTRI Applications, no idea why someone would bulk apply to PTRI as a security attack, but also interesting.
4. Codesmith has a number of major security problems so there security advisor should probably fix those first. For example, your CEO shouldn't be using his personal email address for so much stuff at Codesmith. That's a bigger risk to me than someone spamming applications, unless the application flow has security vulnerabilities that someone was trying to exploit or discover?