The Security Podcast of Silicon Valley
Aug 11, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
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Why do you think people bypass security? You mentioned that when people build products, they often will bypass or shortcut.
And I think, you know, policies and security always oftentimes get in the way, right? Like if you just want to watch a movie, you just want to pirate that film.
I want to make sure it's only me or this group of privileged people can access it.
I think it depends on where you are on that spectrum, because I think there are certain things that it's like overdone.
But when someone builds a company, there's always a question of, okay, I can either move extremely fast and forget about all of the security controls.
And there's the opposite side of the house, which is let's build all of the security controls as many as possible, even though we may not even have that problem.
So you install it once, you put it in the right place, and it magically just works multimodally.
And so for us, like we try to straddle between those two realms, because if you overdo it, it becomes really annoying for everyday users.
And if you do it at the HEPA filter level, everyone gets to enjoy it in the room.
Why do you think people bypass security? You mentioned that when people build products, they often will bypass or shortcut.
And I think, you know, policies and security always oftentimes get in the way, right? Like if you just want to watch a movie, you just want to pirate that film.
I want to make sure it's only me or this group of privileged people can access it.
I think it depends on where you are on that spectrum, because I think there are certain things that it's like overdone.
But when someone builds a company, there's always a question of, okay, I can either move extremely fast and forget about all of the security controls.
And there's the opposite side of the house, which is let's build all of the security controls as many as possible, even though we may not even have that problem.
So you install it once, you put it in the right place, and it magically just works multimodally.
And so for us, like we try to straddle between those two realms, because if you overdo it, it becomes really annoying for everyday users.
And if you do it at the HEPA filter level, everyone gets to enjoy it in the room.
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