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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.

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74mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 34 in 2020

Security engineer. Recovering VC and academic sharing random thoughts on security.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Convincing Developers to Do Security
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-01-12
  2. Handling Security Incidents in the Cloud
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted Cloud Security from First Principles as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted Why security and engineering don't get along as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Developers don't care about security as a story · 4 points

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  4. Submitted Spotting AI Snake Oil as a story · 4 points

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  5. Submitted Security Is Security's Responsibility as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Zscaler Might Fail as a story · 3 points

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  7. Submitted No one can solve ransomware as a story · 3 points

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  8. Submitted Zero trust security is stupid as a story · 3 points

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  9. Submitted Why most cybersecurity products are useless as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Why most security products are useless as a story · 3 points

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  11. Submitted Using my PhD in venture capital as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Cloud vs. Cloud-Native as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted Security for Developers: Threat Modeling as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted Crowdstrike Fails as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Why security needs more engineers as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted Why cybersecurity needs more engineers as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted What Is a Security Engineer? as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted All Security Products Suck as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Why zero-trust security is stupid as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Data security is cool again as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted Why cloud security is so hard as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted Most security products are useless as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted Convincing Developers to Do Security as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Startups should say what they mean as a story · 2 points

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  25. Submitted Smart VCs shouldn't invest in network security as a story · 2 points

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  26. Submitted How to Differentiate in a Crowded Market as a story · 2 points

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  27. Submitted Why developers don't care about security as a story · 2 points

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  28. Submitted Developers don't care about security as a story · 2 points

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  29. Submitted Why cloud providers don't care about security – and they shouldn't as a story · 2 points

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  30. Submitted Why Data Security Is Hard as a story · 2 points

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