The honest truth is that almost all startups have pretty terrible security, for the simple reason that they have nothing to lose. Even startups that have become large enough to have something to lose often only start taking it seriously after a breach, because it’s hard to institutionally steer the ship towards conservatism once you’ve accumulated enough assets and customer relationships and visibility to merit hiring actual security people.
That said, Zack Korman is kind of a professional ragebaiter. His entire schtick is to find other technology companies on the internet and complain about them. So, maybe evaluate the incident on its merits (I have not read the blogpost).
The honest truth is that almost all startups have pretty terrible security, for the simple reason that they have nothing to lose.
I agree but seems bad for security startups specifically. If my doordash info gets leaked, w/e. Shit happens. But you’d hope that the companies working on frontier lab security would have more of a security mindset than that!
The honest truth is that almost all startups have pretty terrible security, for the simple reason that they have nothing to lose. Even startups that have become large enough to have something to lose often only start taking it seriously after a breach, because it’s hard to institutionally steer the ship towards conservatism once you’ve accumulated enough assets and customer relationships and visibility to merit hiring actual security people.
That said, Zack Korman is kind of a professional ragebaiter. His entire schtick is to find other technology companies on the internet and complain about them. So, maybe evaluate the incident on its merits (I have not read the blogpost).
I agree but seems bad for security startups specifically. If my doordash info gets leaked, w/e. Shit happens. But you’d hope that the companies working on frontier lab security would have more of a security mindset than that!
Of course.
apologies if this is obvious to you! :)