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Show HN: Weekly curated security newsletter

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7 pointsdietervds8 comments

I love curated newsletters as a primary source of information, but I couldn't find one about security news that I enjoyed, so I created this one. It's inspired heavily by newsletters like Saas Weekly, Devops Weekly and Cron.weekly.

A bit over 300 subscribers so far, 3 months in. Open rates have been consistent around 60-70%. From all the projects I've done, I'm enjoying this one the most by far. The newsletter is sent with the service Curated, which I'm very pleased with.

Let me know what you guys think, I'd appreciate any feedback.

I think it hits the sweet spot. It covers all the things that other devs and my clients may mention if they become bigger new stories and on a practical level it covers many things I can actually do something about.

Thanks!

Looking at the archive there does not appear to be a clear editorial opinion about what security news is. Some articles are useless in terms of security practice, e.g. the Ashley Madison settlement which is legal news and titillation but there are no lessons or reasons to change security practice.

Good luck.

Thanks for the feedback!

You are right, the filter of what makes news is something that I'm calibrating as I write more issues and learn more. I generally try and share only educational articles, like you said. In the case of Ashley Madison I found it to be an interesting story about accountability for lack of security.

But sometimes I'll just share something because it, well, made the news, and got a lot of attention that week, as I feel that's what many subscribers want. Or just something funny.

I do try to stay away from politics, privacy-only news (one can start a separate newsletter on that), and non-actionable news about a small exploit that was found and patched, that helps no one who reads it.

Similar: http://workhack.com/security

Thanks for the link. I wouldn't necessarily call them similar though. One is a handy list of RSS feeds, the other a newsletter that summarizes selected articles. Still though, bookmarked :-)

Looks interesting enough that I am happy to check it out.

Thanks!

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