Defense Tech was started by Noah Shachtman, he of Wired’s Danger Room. Noah’s site looks just like the OLD Defense Tech, right down to the categories!

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Anyways, when it was on old Movable Type Defense Tech was both “the intersection of technology and defense from every angle” AND the intersection of comment spam from every spammer. It was definitely an epic migration, to migrate from Movable Type 3.2 to WordPress 2.something. Too many redirects, too many lessons learned, but it resulted in a great site.

Defense Tech is a big site, with over 5,400 posts, 80,000+ comments and a dedicated community of readers.

The site uses the Thesis theme which I really love…for authors, but not so much for coding. I also do a lot of IP address blocking to prevent comment spammers.

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