The Wording-Diff Alert: Alerting on Sentences That Changed, Not Documents That Arrived
Every organization that publishes advisories writes the same document twice: once when nothing happened, and once when something did. The intelligence is not in the document. It is in the delta between versions. Most monitoring pipelines miss this because they alert on new documents, not on changed wording. The pipeline in five lines of logic: Poll the source (an advisory page, an embassy notice, an API status page, a terms page - anything versioned). Normalize the text: strip boilerplate (nav,…