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Jonathan Price
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Jonathan Price writes Security Is, a personal blog at securityis.substack.com about security, career and business. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Security is not an encryption problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jonathan Price's Substack on security controls, including posts on VPNs, encryption and password resets. One comment links the VPN and encryption posts as related reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
This is a blog written by a technical security leader focused on problems facing security leadership and organizations (not strictly technical ones). I will release a new blog about every other week.
Most-linked posts?
- Security is not an encryption problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-21
What Hacker News says?
I actually wrote blogs about two of my (least) favorites: [VPNs]( https://securityis.substack.com/p/security-is-not-a-vpn-prob... [Encryption]( https://securityis.substack.com/p/security-is-not-an-encrypt... ). Thank you for pointing out I don't link to them in this original post. Password resets are definitely one, and I still have to tell prospects and customers that I can't both comply with NIST 800-63 and period…
Comment linking /p/security-is-not-an-encryption-problem
on “Security Is a Useless Controls Problem”Submitted Security Is a Useless Controls Problem as a story · 131 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security is a Renewals Problem: How to negotiate in vendor renewals as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Is a Negotiation Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Is a Pricing Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Is a False Positive Problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security is not an AI problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security is a vendor assessment problem as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security is not an encryption problem as a story · 1 points
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