I’ve been a DO customer for the better part of a decade, but there is no way that I can continue to be a customer with a company that has such a blasé stance toward security and protecting customer data.
If anyone can suggest any alternatives that are not Hetzner, I would be interested.
And they give you an excuse that it’s time consuming for them and you should respect their time.
Would you bank with them?
This is a pathetic response and you are dragging your former company through the mud by putting the incompetence that you participated in, front and center.
It’s amazing that this happened so long ago and yet you seemed to have learned nothing from it, and now want to double down on your right to leak sensitive data (because it was convenient at the time)
Before the GDPR the EU had the 1995 Data Protection Directive, which you would have to comply with to have EU customers.
You can’t just decide to not follow the law because you’re a startup.
In the event your google is broken:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
>the controller must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, in particular where the processing involves the transmission of data over a network, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.
Should I explain this too?
Do you know what else ties up a lot of resources? Civil action, negligence claims, PR disasters.
This specific GitHub issue is one of several why I will never use DO: language, official response, and attitude all matter. I'd be curious to know how much revenue DO has lost because of this one issue.