Who are the "snake oil salesmen" of tech?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snake%20oil
snake oil (noun):
1: any of various substances or mixtures sold (as by a traveling medicine show) as medicine usually without regard to their medical worth or properties
2: poppycock, bunkum
Who are these people, companies, entities etc. in the tech world?
So sorry to observe Blockchain tech/ppl as a perfect example of a snake oil / snake oil sellers. I can clearly see a big future on this field, kind of a Democracy 2.0, the "short script which is going to replace all the governments".
But the myriad of dudes who don't know even the very basics of cryptography but having some excellent sales skills make me feel sad sometimes.
Agile coaches who never wrote a single line of code. Blockchain people. Coding bootcamps and content/course creators promising unrealistic timelines to developer jobs. Pretty much anyone talking like they just made OVER-9000-DOLLARS(!!!) in a week with ChatGPT/Midjourney/Bitcoin/affiliate marketing/whatever the latest fad is. To lesser degree consumer grade VPN companies.
Low code and no code tools claiming it's over for programmers
If you look in blockchain, antivirus or AI, you’ll find heaps of snake oil salesmen.
Vendors of elaborate, configurable, "enterprise" tools for software development and monitoring.
JIRA, SonarQube, VeraCode, Coverity - all these apps that seem like a good idea in principle, but end up being misconfigured with complicated workflows, and generally get in the way of ever making changes to software and get used to tick the security box instead of actually fixing anything.
Web3 aka distributed ledger aka blockchain
Most SEO tools or “experts” are snake oil.
Social Media Influencers - and the platforms they ~~rode~~ wrote in on.
techlead,joma tech,99pc of Indian YouTubers,people who gaurantee you a job after buying a course,scaler academy
The ones we've already caught and convicted: FTX, Theranos, ...
Microsoft
Selling a gaming OS as a tool for companies.
Basically all consumer security apps?
Anyone selling anything at all...
Anyone who pitches a "safer" computer language, or methodology. Rust, for example.
People who sell memory that they know is unreliable, otherwise RowHammer[1] wouldn't work
Most of the "CyberSecurity" industry... the Operating System should be doing their job, but isn't.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer