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Zack Whittaker
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Zack Whittaker writes ~this week in security~, a personal blog at this.weekinsecurity.com about security and politics. Since 2025, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “I'm Suing the Justice Department and FBI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only a bare link is given, so the linked post is about security reporting on tech vendors, here a Pwnie Award 'Lamest Vendor' win by Microsoft, in a thread about GitHub outages.
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.
a weekly cybersecurity newsletter by journalist Zack Whittaker, plus exclusive articles, analysis, and much more.
Most-linked posts?
- I'm Suing the Justice Department and FBI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-05
- Apple's Always-Listening Tech: A Nightmare of Constant Surveillance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-09-13
- America's largest companies have no simple way to report security flaws2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-23
What Hacker News says?
Sympathy negated by their 2026 Pwnie award: "Lamest Vendor" https://this.weekinsecurity.com/microsoft-wins-lamest-vendor...
Comment linking /microsoft-wins-lamest-vendor-at-pwnie-awards-2026-for-threatening-security-researchers-with-legal-action/
on “GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?”Submitted Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Trump administration is weaponizing sanctions to silence its critics as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's Always-Listening Tech: A Nightmare of Constant Surveillance as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vigilantism Comes for Flock as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses' as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI browsers are a hot mess of security risks as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted America's largest companies have no simple way to report security flaws as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm Suing the Justice Department and FBI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Author Is) Suing the DOJ and the FBI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple's Always-Listening Tech: A Privacy Nightmare Waiting to Happen as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted America's largest companies have no simple way to report security flaws as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oura ring deal raises valid concerns about users' health data security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why every organization should make it easy to report security flaws as a story · 1 points
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