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I'm not parent, but the claim wasn't that popular implies vulnerable. Just that some projects ignore security while the stakes are low, which comes back to bite

• nostrademons 14y ago
  ...which is often the right choice, because projects that pay attention to security from the get-go often lose out in the marketplace to ones who pay attention to other, more important factors. There's an opportunity cost to everything, and for many apps, security is not as important as convenience, ease-of-use, performance, or features. Witness Dropbox vs. TarSnap. Dropbox has had multiple serious security vulnerabilities published. TarSnap is by the FreeBSD security officer. Yet Dropbox is the one with the million+ users and $B+ market cap, because grandma cares a lot more about being able to figure out how to use the product than about what happens when the product gets hacked.
  • cookiecaper 14y ago
    There's a lot more to DB v. TS than "Dropbox focused less on security". They're different programs for different audiences. While in some cases they may have market overlap, TS definitely has a niche that would never even consider DB as a possibility. TS's major competitor is custom solutions like rsync.net + duplicity.