On 10 November 2014 17:49, J.M. Porup <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible to make money investing in privacy- or security-focused > startups?
There is certainly an interest in the related technologies, but the obstacles are the ones you would probably expect: 1. Commercial companies don't want to be associated with regular users of the technologies (dissidents, etc.). So you better be able to supply your own anonymity network if you need one, etc. 2. Commercial investors have issues with open-source code — something that can be alleviated with education on necessity of open source in cybersecurity, and on various licensing approaches (community / enterprise, etc.). 3. Military / security organizations have issues with the development not being under their control, and strive to develop in-house solutions (which might be more primitive / buggy, but that's what they prefer organizationally). Overall, privacy / security is a very difficult investment field, since the end-users don't know the difference between good and only-so-good technologies, they only see the difference in marketing. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
