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		sgrove on Jan 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mailgun Security Incident and Important Customer I... Honest question, why would you "want to" adhere to compliance? It's almost always more work and more cost, I think.

nuggien on Jan 6, 2018 [–]

The cost of paying fines for non compliance would be more.

sgrove on Jan 8, 2018 | [–]

Exactly, that's very different from "because we want to," it's, "because there's a very big stick over our heads if we don't."

I just thought the attitude/assertion was in discord with my own experience/understanding.

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