Comment by orangelimesoda
5 hours ago
Credit card entry, I think you should know a few basics like don't put it in MongoDB?? Or nah? It's just like any other user data?
How about a background check - can anyone take a user-entered DL and randomly Google stuff to see what they find?
Can I store your SSN in plain text in a text file? Why not?
The user had to upload their ID for IDV but I use Vercel. I guess I have to put it on S3. What should the bucket policy be for all these driver's license photos - there are so many???
> Credit card entry, I think you should know a few basics like don't put it in MongoDB?? Or nah? It's just like any other user data?
> How about a background check - can anyone take a user-entered DL and randomly Google stuff to see what they find?
> Can I store your SSN in plain text in a text file? Why not?
You wouldn't be touching any of those unless you work for a handful of providers where that's their whole business. Usually you add the dependency, use their widget, and that's it.
> Credit card entry
If you're handling credit card numbers yourself, you're in a shrinking subset of developer roles. I've spent the last 7 years of my career working at payment processors, so I do handle that stuff, but the majority of my industry has built an infrastructure that makes it so most developers don't have to think about that.
To your other examples, not everyone on the team needs to know these things up front. Someone in the review process does, and eventually that knowledge gets disseminated and more people know it to carry it forward in their career.
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