How Calls for Privacy May Upend Business for Facebook and Google
Hopefully it will also change the "move fast & proper security is an afterthought" model of startups.<p>Years ago(in CS degree before professional work), I used to wonder & be amazed by how fast new companies(mainly U.S.) moved so quickly.<p>It wasn't because they had some secret sauce or 10x devs, it was because all they did was focus solely on features & take shortcuts. Their customers data security was an afterthought - e.g. production DBs open to anyone in company(even the world in some cases(mongo)), no auditing or logging of data access.<p>Maybe YC(& other accelerators) will make a security expert available to these people...because young adults with 0 professional experience will probably not consider security & rely on the defaults of whatever stack they're using to be good enough. Even less consideration will be given when they're fed & surrounded by a grow fast at all costs mentality.<p>Good security in their products needs thought & critical analysis put into it & I'm not sure new devs appreciate it.