Farewell 2009, and The Washington Post
December 24th, 2009 admin

This will be the last post for the Security Fix blog. Dec. 31 marks my final day at The Washington Post Company. Over the last 15 years, I’ve reported hundreds of stories for washingtonpost.com and the paper edition. I have authored more than 1,300 blog posts since we launched Security Fix back in March 2005. Dozens of investigative reports that first appeared online later were “reverse published” in the newspaper, including eight front-page stories…
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