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Re:Poll: Does your startup try to write secure software? by Haskell on Thursday December 11, 2008 @06:31PM (#395046)
>>And yet most of them are not hacked in that manner

The guys at Wordpress and Jommla beg to disagree.

It depends on how popular it is. If the open source version of Reddit becames as popular as Wordpress, then it certainly would get hacked in that manner.

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Re:Poll: Does your startup try to write secure software? by tptacek on Thursday December 11, 2008 @06:34PM (#395053)
Do we have to spend time pointing out the differences between WordPress and indie startups like Backtype, Songkick, and Adpinion? Microsoft spends a lot of time on security too, and I'm not saying they're dumb for doing it.
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Re:Poll: Does your startup try to write secure software? by Haskell on Thursday December 11, 2008 @06:50PM (#395082)
You used the word indie at the first comment, but I interpreted it as startup, because this discussion is about startups.

Most startups aren't indies.

For instance, Plentyoffish.com was a ONE person startup not so long ago with revenues of 1MM and 1B pageviews. Just imagine what a news recomendation site with TWO persons would be able to do. :)

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