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To everyone who voted for us to win in this year’s Security Blogger Awards, “Thanks!”
Friend and colleague Chester Wisniewski emailed me, pleased as a peacock, from the awards ceremony in San Francisco…
We won!
This is the fourth award that the Naked Security team has brought home from the RSA conference in four years.
We were voted Most Educational Security Blog in 2011, Best Corporate Security Blog in 2012 and 2013, and in 2014, just hours ago, in fact, The Blog That Best Represents The Security Industry.
In previous years, voting was limited to other security bloggers.
This year, however, voting was open to all, so it is you, our readers, who did it for us – thanks again!
By the way, a huge part of our success is not so much knowing how to write our stories, but knowing what to write about, and why it would be useful to do so.
And for the what and why, we have to say, “Thanks” to all of you yet again.
Your enthusiatic engagement with Naked Security through comments and email is really what made this award possible.
We love hearing your comments and reading your tips, so please keep them coming!
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Paul and Chester
Congratulations to you both on a well deserved accolade. Your tireless efforts in sharing not only what went wrong, but always including useful information on what could be done to prevent it, is greatly appreciated in the computer security industry. Well done!
Aw, gee, thanks, Crazy! (Or do we call you Mr/Mrs/Ms Canuck?)
Don’t forget all the other contributors, as well as our unsung heroine and editor, Anna Brading. She does write articles [q.v.] when she gets the time, but it’s her tireless effort in “cat herding” the rest of us that really makes the difference. Ask any writer how much a good editor is worth!
Crazy will do… since a bit of that is required in this line of work. Thanks for pointing that out…. it is rare to succeed without a long list of support people, and I extend my congratulations to the whole team….
Congrats NakSec!
Congratulations, so well deserved
Awesome! I voted for you 🙂
Congratulations! Though as a security guy, I have no respect for Internet polls 🙂 (You still deserve it.)
Congratulations, Naked Security! In my opinion you guys are the most informative site on security at the moment so it’s a reward well deserved 🙂 Keep it up.
Congrats on your award and to all those who had to vote in every category before you could submit your vote for Naked Security !!!
Paul Ducklin wrote: “If you haven’t had your say on Naked Security before, here’s how:”
The blog might get a few more responses if feedback were more positive. When a user submits a comment, the only response he gets is “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” He never receives an email informing him that the comment was accepted and posted. There is no option to be informed when others have replied to his comments or when other posts have been made to the forum, both of which are considered best practices.
It’s like posting into a black hole, unfortunately. Drop me an email if you find this useful–otherwise I will never know if you even saw it.
I hear you…funny thing is that our old comment system (which none of us were too crazy about from a “moderator usability” point of view) had that feature, and some people complained, signing up for notifications and then getting aggravated if there were more than one or two.
“You’re spamming me,” they’d exclaim.
So we have had more people who used the old system and disliked it that we have had people disliking that the old system is no longer there to use 🙂
Our servermeisters *will* see your comment – though you may never know 🙂 – so, who knows, we might change back!
I only like a notification system if I am in a forum where people ask for help. That way I can respond to their follow up questions or I know if someone has helped me out.
In a blog like Naked Security, it is more informational and less “help me” so I would prefer not to get a notification every time someone responds to my comment about an article. If I ask a question I can usually check back the next day and someone will have answered it.
Yay! Congratulations! ^^
Very well done Guys, you certainly deserve it and i am pleased that you won
Congratulations! It’s well deserved.
congrats, my favorite security blog for sure
Well done and well deserved! I consider myself very lucky that my brother steered me in the direction of Sophos antivirus for Macs when I bought my first Mac – because it led me to Naked Security and the very informative, very witty and (for a non-IT person) very easy to understand security advice.
Congratulations!
Thank you for the valuable service you provide! I’m glad that you have taken the prize again.
brilliant congrats! I was sad that i missed the deadline for voting but doesn’t matter!