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paganel on Aug 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why must you laugh at my back end?

>I did not say you couldn't build web applications if you were a jerkass who was cavalier with the security of his users' data. I said you shouldn't.

That would have left us without reddit, I don't know about you, but without it the Internet would have been a lot less interesting.

evilduck on Aug 31, 2011 [–]

Compromising user data isn't a prerequisite to building something cool. Negligence is still negligence. Drunk drivers make it home without killing anyone more often than not.

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