How important is security
I'm building something that is based on users data (users register and it needs as many users as possible to succeed)
If I won't require email registration and will make it super easy to register I'll be vulnerable, how likely is it that bad people will target me and start spamming/hacking?
should I invest time into this before I go live or is it unlikely that I'll be targeted?
Hi Kareem,
This is something I struggle with also... and often the reason I end up either not pursuing a project or changing in scope. Me personally I feel like people are entrusting me with their data, so I try and think of that the same as if I put my data on someone else's project. Hopefully they have security as a top priority.
You mention that you won't be capturing emails, so it may not be crucial in your case just depends on what you are actually capturing.
Hard to say the likelihood of you getting targeted, but consider this: I've had newly launched domains with simple Google Analytics tracking, suddenly see random visits from like China, Russia, etc. And thats while trying to be in stealth mode, so robots.txt in place and intentionally blocking crawlers, etc. There's probably reasonable explanations for those visits but they just seem weird to me...
Would love to hear other's perspectives on this though.