Matt Moore
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1,477 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Matt Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think he said something like, Not yet, maybe in uh a few months or six months or something like that.
It did not take six months.
I think it very quickly burrowed a hole in his head and we were trying to figure out the right way to stage things and time things.
But I mean, it went very quickly after that.
We also had to be mindful of, you know, he he and Tim were still at Google at
the time, right?
So I started to bootstrap things like GitHub org and stuff like that, but like they never got access until they were free and clear.
So trying to keep things firewalled so that we didn't have to deal with any of that later on.
But yeah, I mean I think we sort of figured out pretty quickly like, yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna do this and it's gonna be exciting and fun and terrifying all at the same time.
It's sort of interesting.
Before solar winds, very few people cared about this.
Like I said, Google, Google cared about this really for somewhat selfish reasons.
They they saw the exposure there.
My favorite quote is In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
So if we tried to raise funds even a year earlier, I don't think we would have been successful.
It's not that people didn't know about this problem, right?
The problem has been fewer.
Theoretical since 1984.
Ken Thompson's famous Reflections on Trusting Trust lecture basically described a supply chain attack.
And then solar winds happened.
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