We released a longer version, because we do hear very often that people don't understand how these intrusions are actually working. Also, we tried to show the scale.
-> both long form and shorter version
hope that helps.
Did you do testing with focus groups to determine whether the longer article helped people "understand how these intrusions are actually working" or whether it just made readers aware that they don't understand?
We don't have focus groups, but we want to convey to our readers are certain understanding how these operations work. What threat hunting is, why it is important and all that.
At some point you have to make some certain decisions. One was not to explain what a rolling xor is. So yeah, we had to simplify a lot. The truth is, though, this stuff is hard for most people, myself included.
Hope that helps.
Some news websites hesitate to put external links in their articles because they lead readers off the site, but I think they can be helpful to provide jumping-off points for the interested reader. For example, the git repository could be linked somewhere in the article, or as part of the "about the project" section at the end.
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For me, this is almost always a sign, that they don't think that high about their own content. If your content is great and you write engaging articles that are interesting to the reader, he will return. Trying to stop the reader from leaving, in a browser tab he can close at any time, is kind of ridiculous to me..