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Frank Wang
Personal blog · franklyspeaking.substack.comsecuritystartups
Frank Wang writes Frankly Speaking, a personal blog at franklyspeaking.substack.com about security and startups. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Convincing Developers to Do Security”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Security engineer. Recovering VC and academic sharing random thoughts on security.
Most-linked posts?
- Convincing Developers to Do Security2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-12
- Handling Security Incidents in the Cloud2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-23
What Hacker News says?
Submitted Cloud Security from First Principles as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why security and engineering don't get along as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers don't care about security as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spotting AI Snake Oil as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Is Security's Responsibility as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zscaler Might Fail as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No one can solve ransomware as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zero trust security is stupid as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why most cybersecurity products are useless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why most security products are useless as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using my PhD in venture capital as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cloud vs. Cloud-Native as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security for Developers: Threat Modeling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowdstrike Fails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why security needs more engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why cybersecurity needs more engineers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is a Security Engineer? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All Security Products Suck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why zero-trust security is stupid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data security is cool again as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why cloud security is so hard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most security products are useless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convincing Developers to Do Security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups should say what they mean as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart VCs shouldn't invest in network security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Differentiate in a Crowded Market as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why developers don't care about security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers don't care about security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why cloud providers don't care about security – and they shouldn't as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Data Security Is Hard as a story · 2 points
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