> It might be an unpopular opinion here, but I'm not entirely sure that the GDPR is going to be a good thing Feedback from the trenches: it is a very good thin

> It might be an unpopular opinion here, but I'm not entirely sure that the GDPR is going to be a good thing Feedback from the trenches: it is a very good thing. Suddenly corporate people are beginning to care about security and privacy: we receive spontaneous inquiries from customers about compliance as well as various questions about password storage policy and proper encryption. Previously the very same people were laughing in our face when we told them passwords must not be stored as plaintext. Whatever the content itself, the message of the GDPR is clear: companies have to care about their users privacy and security, or they'll get a wild kick in the guts.