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This is the point of much of the security efforts we see now.

Outsourcing of security functions, and things like login push a lot of liability and legal issues off into someone else's house.

It's hard to be the source of a password leak, or be compromised when you don't control the passwords. But like any chain your only as secure as your weakest link... Snowflake is a great current example of this. Mean while the USPS just told us "oops" we had tracking pixels for a bunch of vendors all over our delivery preview tool.

Candidly, most people stacks look a lot less like software and more like a toolbar riddled IE5 install circa 2000. I don't think our industry is in a good place.




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