Every log must fire: applying Chekhov's gun to cybersecurity incident reports(andreafortuna.org)
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Every log must fire: applying Chekhov's gun to cybersecurity incident reports
https://andreafortuna.org/2025/11/17/chekhovs-gun-and-cybersecurity-incident-reports
3 comments
I wish the same rule applied to their site design. It’s 90% ads on mobile, almost completely unreadable.
WTF? Now I wish to vote down a submission just because of the clickbait title.
Logs, alerts, and indicators are all different things with completely different barriers to existence. Stop fucking up the language by purposefully confounding them.
No, the entire reason logs exist is because you want to save things that do not trigger some action by themselves, or maybe even rarely be used for something.
Logs, alerts, and indicators are all different things with completely different barriers to existence. Stop fucking up the language by purposefully confounding them.
No, the entire reason logs exist is because you want to save things that do not trigger some action by themselves, or maybe even rarely be used for something.
The post does use cyber industry terminology inconsistently though, noted in another comment, and I fear that's going to make every technologist exit the page before getting the point.