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How Decipher is made
Independent security journalism by Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch, set in open-source type, illustrated by a redaction machine, and fed by public vulnerability data.
Editorial
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Decipher, independent security journalism |
| Editors | Dennis Fisher, Lindsey O’Donnell-Welch |
| Sponsors | Always labeled, never inside a story, no say in coverage. Our policy |
Type
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Headlines | Barlow Bold and SemiBold, by Jeremy Tribby |
| Text and data | Geist and Geist Mono, by Vercel |
| Licenses | All three are open source (SIL Open Font License) and served from this site |
Color
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ink | #231F20, the text |
| Mint | #89CDB4, the signal |
| Coral | #EF5147, alerts and the redaction stamp |
| Night | #0E0F0F, dark mode |
The art
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Photos | Split-toned: coral in the shadows, mint in the mid-tones, pale highlights |
| Redaction | Ink bars and a file stamp on large images, one word per beat |
| Stamps | REDACTED (intrusions) · UNPATCHED (vulnerabilities) · SYNTHETIC (AI) · CLASSIFIED (policy) · TAMPERED (supply chain) |
The data
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Exploited CVEs | CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog |
| CVE details | NIST’s National Vulnerability Database |
| Episodes | The Decipher YouTube channel and podcast feed, synced every hour |
Under the hood
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Build | Astro, a static site: every page is plain HTML |
| Editing | Sitepins, a Git-based content editor |
| Hosting | Cloudflare Pages, with search by Pagefind |
| Privacy | No ad trackers and no tracking cookies; visits are counted by Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies. Fonts are served from this site. YouTube loads in privacy-enhanced mode, only when you press play |
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