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You are right, if the company you outsource your task to is actually better then you. In LinkedIn's case, outsourcing was the wrong decision because they used pretty bad "tools". You should also only outsource if you trust the other company to be "competent" and protect your interests. For instance, I would have trusted Mozilla with their OpenID alternative but not Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn (though I'm pretty sure Google knows how to keep the login data safe, I'm more worried about privacy in that case).

In this case, what I would do is to use a framework that makes getting those things wrong hard. Django is a great example for that. They provide you with a generic user model that does password handling for you. They also add a few middlewares by default to protect you against CSRF, click jacking and many more. While django can be really slow, and hard to use when doing something "unsual", you can learn a lot from it. I don't know many frameworks that make security so much easier. In Go, you can do all those things as well but that requires that you are aware of those security measures to use them, which is not ideal for junior developers or "fast moving startups that don't have time to invest in security measure".




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