KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th 12 months of existence immediately! I promised myself this publish wouldn’t devolve into one more Cybersecurity 12 months in Evaluate. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors might await us in 2024. However I do wish to thanks all to your continued readership, encouragement and help, with out which I couldn’t do what I do.
As of this birthday, I’ve formally been an impartial investigative journalist for longer than I used to be a reporter for The Washington Put up (1995-2009). After all, not in case you depend the numerous years I labored as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Put up to dozens of houses in Springfield, Va. (as a younger teen, I inherited a largish paper route handed down from my elder siblings).
True story: On the time I used to be employed as a lowly copy aide by The Washington Put up, all new hires — everybody from the mailroom and janitors on as much as the executives — had been invited to a proper dinner within the Govt Suite with the writer Don Graham. On the night of my new hires dinner, I used to be feeling underdressed, undershowered and misplaced. After gobbling down some meals, I attempted to slink away to the elevator with one other copy aide, however was pulled apart by the man who employed me. “Hey Brian, not so quick! Come over and meet Don!”
I used to be 23 years outdated, and I had no clue what to say besides to inform him that paper route story, and that I’d already been working for him for half my life. Mr. Graham laughed and advised me that was the perfect factor he’d heard all day. Which after all made my week, and made me really feel extra relaxed among the many fits.
I stay grateful to WaPo for instilling many expertise, akin to the right way to distill technobabble into plain English for a common viewers. And the right way to make individuals the main focus of extremely technical tales. As a result of individuals — and their everlasting struggles — are imminently relatable, no matter whether or not one has a full grasp of the technical particulars.
Phrases fail me when attempting to explain how grateful I’m that this complete impartial reporter factor nonetheless works, financially and in any other case. I largely simply hold my head down researching stuff and sharing what I discover, and someway a great deal of individuals hold coming again to the positioning. As I prefer to say, I hope they let me hold doing this, as a result of I’m actually unqualified to do a lot else!
One other milestone of kinds: We’ve now amassed greater than 52,000 subscribers to our e-mail e-newsletter, which is a elaborate time period for a plain textual content e-mail that goes out instantly each time a brand new story is printed right here. Subscribing is free, we by no means share anybody’s e-mail deal with, and we don’t ship emails apart from new story notifications (2-3 per week).
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