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I don't think it's an unfair assessment about potential or actual security. And it's a fair critique. Whether it's a legitimate concern based on this particular implementation is another matter, but they are correct in that work history is probably sensitive personal history, perhaps not secretive. And there is evidence attached to the OP post - it's the link marked [0].

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This thread is about this specific app/idea/team. It is not about potential security problems in general. The parent could have just asked "what is the security and privacy?" rather than make baseless assumptions and accusations. So no, it is not a fair critique without more information and I don't see how an article about unsecured Firebase databases is related given the current information. I can give you a similar article about unsecured, internet accessible Elasticsearch servers, but does that mean the ones I run are unsecured? You could assume that if you want but that would be an incorrect assumption.

If I'm a customer in a domain where these are concerns though, each question you make me ask during my evaluation is a chance for me to quit doing the work and move on to something else that's less effort, like the competing product that pushes their security and privacy policies upfront as a product benefit.

So don't ask me to pull myself through your sales funnel, make the process easy by addressing my major concerns before i need to ask.

Yes! Great advice! That is exactly what Show HNs are for. Tell the founders how they can improve such as including security and privacy information in their marketing materials.

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