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I don't get why startups have such horrible security practices so often. It's much harder when you have to improve a legacy application, but these guys started
by ylere 6y ago
I don't get why startups have such horrible security practices so often. It's much harder when you have to improve a legacy application, but these guys started from scratch! Does it really take that much more time to at least follow basic security practices? Even if one wants "to move and break things fast" I don't see how it would take that much more effort...
- jasonladuke0311 6y agoNot enough appsec people relative to engineers?
- rkalla 6y agoSecurity <---------------------------X-> Convenience The 'X' is where I imagine most startups are focusing for usability and time to market so they survive. Moving the 'X' farther left delays time to market and increases overhead for the company, tech and users.
- levosmetalo 6y agoWe hear the version of every day as "why does Signal still doesn't have feature X? whatsapp, telegram and most other messengar have it since ages." And that's why telegram has at least 10x and whatsapp 100x more users.
- spaceywilly 6y agoMy guess is that there are plenty of startups that put a lot of time and effort into security, you just have never heard of them because they never shipped a product