alt Hacker Newsmy time at a money startup (debit cards) i pushed to legal and security people to change their behaviour from "how can we prevent this" to "how can we enable this - while still staying with the legal and security framework" worked good after months of hard work and day long meetings.
then the heads changed and we were back to square one.
but for a moment it was glorious of what was possible.
It's a cultural thing. I loved working at Google because the ethos was "you can do that, and i'll even help you, but have you considered $reason why your idea is stupid/isn't going to work?"