Very Good Security Netlify add-on

Web and SaaS

form data security add-on

SHOW HN2019

59points
17comments
#737of 2,195 in 2019
Top 34%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

4 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.

Docs: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful approach to isolate sensitive data via tokenizing proxy

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool, will try this out! I've been doing a fairly extensive integration with their primary VGS tokenization service and it's been a solid, though young platform with a few…
      ledgerdev on HN
  • Nice work from the team

    From 1 comment

Objections

  • Why not use Stripe or Checkr which already keep sensitive data off servers

    From 1 comment
    • This is interesting, but one thing I didn't understand from the video demo (which shows a background check form and a payment form) Aren't these SaaS tools like Stripe (payments)…
      andrenotgiant on HN
  • Docs had a typo and broken, truncated links

    From 3 comments
    • I am not 100% but I believe that 'Sure name' should be Surname https://www.screencast.com/t/VmRZ1dlH0T https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/surname
      bks on HN
    • This is great, thanks! The first two links are truncated and broken, however. Please update!
      cdepman on HN
    • Interesting, blog seems broken, bad copy paste?
      WrtCdEvrydy on HN
  • Publishing a vault-like service's access raises privacy doubts

    From 1 comment
    • If I ask someone to place a diamond in a safe at Fort Knox, and then publish the name and password to retrieve the diamond on a billboard, is the diamond safe?
      sagebird on HN

Requests

  • Confirm HIPAA compliance and encryption at rest for health data

    From 1 comment
    • Is this new service HIPAA compliant as well? Can I collect patient health info, have it stored in a separate vault from all my other data.. and have it be encrypted at rest?
      mackatsol on HN

Questions

  • How does this differ from payment processors that already avoid storing card data

    From 2 comments
    • This is interesting, but one thing I didn't understand from the video demo (which shows a background check form and a payment form) Aren't these SaaS tools like Stripe (payments)…
      andrenotgiant on HN
    • Yes they are, BUT if you use stripe(or any processor) for monthly recurring charges or tokenization, the card data is permanently locked to processor. So what happens next year…
      ledgerdev on HN

Alternatives named

  • Stripe

    From 2 comments
    • This is interesting, but one thing I didn't understand from the video demo (which shows a background check form and a payment form) Aren't these SaaS tools like Stripe (payments)…
      andrenotgiant on HN
    • Yes they are, BUT if you use stripe(or any processor) for monthly recurring charges or tokenization, the card data is permanently locked to processor. So what happens next year…
      ledgerdev on HN
  • Checkr

    From 1 comment
    • This is interesting, but one thing I didn't understand from the video demo (which shows a background check form and a payment form) Aren't these SaaS tools like Stripe (payments)…
      andrenotgiant on HN

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