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I'm a firm believer that if you want to start a tech company, at least one of the founders has to have a technical background. Even if you outsource all the wor

I'm a firm believer that if you want to start a tech company, at least one of the founders has to have a technical background. Even if you outsource all the work, you need to be able to ask the right questions related to security. It's not just that this database was accessible via the internet. It was all public data. Storing people's IDs in a public database is just... wow.

kenjackson 1y ago
Tech background isn’t sufficient. They need to have security background. Some of the worst people I’ve met with respect to security have been technical enough to have the wrong level of confidence.
TZubiri 1y ago
Doctors need to study 5 to 8 years and pass rigorous exams Attorneys the same Structural architects and engineers the same We have a couple of decades more until we lock tech up, up until now it was all fun and games, but now and in the future tech will be everywhere and will be load bearing
- Pigalowda 1y ago
  Tech is special! Think about the margins, the gains, the $$$! I bet on greed. It always wins.
- justahuman74 1y ago
  By then we'll just launder the blame onto the AIs
alibarber 1y ago
But now we have amazing vibe coding tools that mean that you don’t need to be technical or whatever - you can just deliver results. After all, the best LinkedIn influencers and founders don’t care about how something is delivered, just what. Yeah, we’ve finally, nearly, just got to the point where realizing that treating IT and security and such as simply a cost centre to be minimised maybe quite wasn’t leading to optimal security outcomes - to throwing it all away again.
- jackdawipper 1y ago
  a few more of these incidents and they'll care a lot more
  - redeeman 1y ago
    thats a joke right?
TechDebtDevin 1y ago
Isnt there like millions of misconfigured firebase dbs in the wild with no auth, some including fortune 500 companies? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured-firebase-instances-leaked-19-million-plaintext-passwords/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured...
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kenjackson 1y ago

Tech background isn’t sufficient. They need to have security background. Some of the worst people I’ve met with respect to security have been technical enough to have the wrong level of confidence.

TZubiri 1y ago

Doctors need to study 5 to 8 years and pass rigorous exams Attorneys the same Structural architects and engineers the same We have a couple of decades more until we lock tech up, up until now it was all fun and games, but now and in the future tech will be everywhere and will be load bearing

Pigalowda 1y ago
Tech is special! Think about the margins, the gains, the $$$! I bet on greed. It always wins.
justahuman74 1y ago
By then we'll just launder the blame onto the AIs

alibarber 1y ago

But now we have amazing vibe coding tools that mean that you don’t need to be technical or whatever - you can just deliver results. After all, the best LinkedIn influencers and founders don’t care about how something is delivered, just what. Yeah, we’ve finally, nearly, just got to the point where realizing that treating IT and security and such as simply a cost centre to be minimised maybe quite wasn’t leading to optimal security outcomes - to throwing it all away again.

jackdawipper 1y ago
a few more of these incidents and they'll care a lot more
- redeeman 1y ago
  thats a joke right?

TechDebtDevin 1y ago

Isnt there like millions of misconfigured firebase dbs in the wild with no auth, some including fortune 500 companies? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured-firebase-instances-leaked-19-million-plaintext-passwords/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/misconfigured...

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