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Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Fortunately if you click on the website, you can deduce the funding model in about 30 seconds:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/cpm/

But I'd imagine you don't ACTUALLY care about the funding source of Krebs, you're just hoping to distract from the topic at hand.

FWIW, that link 403s for me.

https://i.imgur.com/T3RUBiz.png

Here, I looked it up for you:

Brian Krebs, the cybersecurity expert behind Krebs on Security, primarily generates revenue through banner advertisements displayed on his website. His website, which receives over a million visits per month, attracts this income. While he also receives information from law enforcement and other sources, his primary income stream is advertising, according to a WSJ article.

Why does everything need to be tied to revenue? Genuine question.

Because the number of times $ arbitrary_event happens and money is a top contributing factor has got to be at least a trillion to one.

Or said differently: safe to assume money had something to do with it, whatever it is.