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EDITION · MMXXVI

The infosec industry needs a better home for its writing.

Security writing today lives in three places. Personal blogs that nobody finds. LinkedIn posts optimised for engagement, not depth. Vendor blogs with conclusions written before the analysis began.

We're building Cyber+ as a fourth option — a publishing platform designed for the kind of essay you actually want to read at 11pm with a cup of coffee. Long enough to make a real argument. Paywalled if the writer wants. Read by other people in the field.

The platform is opinionated. There's no recommendation algorithm. There are no ads. There are no sponsored posts. There is no “For You” feed manipulating you toward more time spent. You pick the writers you trust, you read them, you pay them when their work earns it, and that's the whole product loop.

We're not the first to try this. Substack has done it well for general writing. Ghost has done it well for the open-source crowd. Cyber+ is specifically for the security community — because the writing here is its own thing, with its own conventions, its own audience, and a sharply different signal-to-noise ratio than what works for cooking blogs or political commentary.

Principles

Five things we won't compromise on.

CHAPTER 01

Writers get paid

When subscriptions are wired up, 90% of revenue goes to the writer. We take 10%. That's it.

CHAPTER 02

No algorithm in the feed

Your home feed is publications you follow, sorted by recency. You can't game it because there's nothing to game.

CHAPTER 03

Export your data anytime

Posts, subscribers, billing history — all available as JSON. We don't lock you in. We earn the right to keep you here.

CHAPTER 04

Privacy by default

No third-party analytics, no tracking pixels in posts, no selling reader data. Anonymous usage data is opt-in only.

CHAPTER 05

Open about how things work

The database schema is published. The pricing is published. The roadmap will be public when there is one.

Come build with us

We're in early access. If you're a writer, an early reader, or a security engineer who'd like to contribute — we'd like to hear from you.