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> the response is not just a statement of belief, but a clear list of changes they intend to implement Sure. But it's also an indication of what their team tho
by bigiain 7y ago
> the response is not just a statement of belief, but a clear list of changes they intend to implement
Sure. But it's also an indication of what their team thought "this is fine!" about, before an internet shitstorm rained down upon them.
In my mind they're always to be suspected of being either naive or actively evil in their use of personal data.
Anybody who launches "a powerful business tool", and then later tells us "We did not consider potential bad actors. I wholeheartedly apologize for not thinking through this more fully." is not someone I'd want running _my_ business tools. I'm now wondering if they considered "bad actors" finding their open MongoDB databases on Shodan? Or their public S3 buckets with their backups? Or their production API keys and secrets in their pubic GitHub code? Or all those other mistakes that everybody goes "but nobody except idiots would do that!" and yet we read about it multiple times per week anyway...
Maybe these guys have a great Email tool. I strongly doubt they have an entrenched culture of "considering bad actors" and appropriately investing effort and securing all the non customer facing infrastructure...
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoTo be honest, I would suspect a large percentage of tech startups had failed to consider bad actors until the last year or two. Don't get me wrong, it's not perfect, but I've seen far too many companies respond to controversy with how they care and will think about how to make things better, while not making any significant changes at all. This is a big step above that.