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by jsulinski 2882 days ago
Hah, yeah, this stuff is hard and acquisitions make it even harder.

I think you started a month after I left. We built a lot at MoPub in a short period of time and when we were acquired I had a mile-long backlog. The Twitter security team was great though and built a war-room during integration. We worked some intense hours leading up to the IPO and over the Holidays, and I’m proud of the work we all did. We migrated a sprawling stack that supported what was then the largest mobile ad exchange and billions of sub-second auctions over just a few weeks. Most of the MoPub team transitioned to other projects and teams quickly though and I left not that long after.

Totally agree that it starts at the top. If the C-level doesn’t care, there just won’t be the resources it takes to build good, secure software. We intend to focus on supporting companies who do care, and we think this focus will also impact how companies using Federacy interact with researchers. We want outside researchers to be viewed as allies, not as a burden.

Have any thoughts on how we can best accomplish this?