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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by galkk on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:13PM (#21330136)
> I think this tweet by Runa just yesterday is a perfect example of why her role was fundamental to the NYT's mission.

> https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1186206876381384704

I'm trying to understand what she's trying to say by this tweet and those screenshots and can't. Could you explain?

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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:19PM (#21330171)
My reading of this is that in the story on the left, the online security experts were so easy to contact that it was super easy to quickly forward a suspicious email for them to evaluate.

In the story on the right, even though the reporter basically gets threats of violence (the pistol), they do not even know who it is that they should be contacting about that.

I guess this illustrates the benefits of having a single point of contact for these types of online security issues that everyone knows to contact.

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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by maxerickson on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:18PM (#21330162)
She worked directly with the journalists so they did not need to ponder on who to ask a security question, they did it as part of the writing process.
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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by trhway on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:09PM (#21330399)
It doesn't sound like director position.
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Re:New York Times Eliminates Director of Information Securit... by maxerickson on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:19AM (#21330992)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21330609 links an article about things she did there.
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