[Ace17]

> But from the startup founder perspective, you can't let yourself be paralyzed by the fear that everything will go horribly wrong.

Some middle ground here is definitely needed.

Even for startups, things going "horribly wrong" can kill people (medical devices, biochemistry, robotics, transportation) or send people to jail (accounting, banking).

And if you think your web startup doesn't deal with "dangerous" things, I suggest googling for "life-threatening grindr security flaw".

There's never a good reason to ignore security.