About ZeroDayDiary | Independent Cybersecurity, Privacy & AI Risk Journal
What ZeroDayDiary is, who runs it, and how it approaches cybersecurity, privacy, surveillance, and AI risk coverage.
What this website is
ZeroDayDiary is an independent editorial monitoring project focused on cybersecurity incidents, privacy harms, surveillance expansion, regulatory change, and operational AI risk. It is not trying to be a general technology news site. The purpose is narrower: track meaningful developments, preserve useful context, and publish concise briefings that are easier to revisit than a fast-moving social feed.
The site is designed as an archive-first journal. That means the priority is not daily volume for its own sake, but a durable record of what changed, why it matters, and what readers should watch next.
Who runs ZeroDayDiary
ZeroDayDiary is run as an independent solo publication by Peter J. Kovacs. The site is not presented as a large newsroom or institutional research lab. It is a focused editorial project with a clear scope, direct authorship, and a preference for signal over noise.
That matters because readers should know what they are looking at: a curated specialist publication, not anonymous content marketing, not a press-release mirror, and not an automated content farm.
How coverage works
Coverage prioritises developments with real-world impact: breaches, ransomware, enforcement action, platform governance failures, harmful privacy shifts, public-sector risk, and emerging AI deployment problems. The editorial model is deliberately structured around a repeatable format:
- what happened
- why it matters
- who is affected
- what to watch next
- sources and verification status
The aim is clarity, consistency, and traceability. Readers should be able to understand the event, the significance, and the confidence level without wading through filler.
Editorial approach
ZeroDayDiary is intentionally Git-first. Articles are written in Markdown, reviewed through a versioned workflow, checked in CI, and then deployed. That keeps the publishing chain reviewable and reduces unnecessary operational complexity.
The site also avoids building unnecessary reader-data burden. For now, the operating model remains simple: archive, RSS, and public pages first; no routine collection of reader email addresses unless there is a strong reason to introduce that later.
What ZeroDayDiary is not
This is not a hype site, a breaking-news firehose, or an attempt to comment on every story in the security industry. It is a narrow publication designed to make important developments legible over time.
In short: ZeroDayDiary exists to document meaningful security, privacy, and AI-risk developments in a way that stays useful after the news cycle moves on.