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A. Karl Kornel

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A. Karl Kornel writes Karl's Notes, a personal blog at karl.kornel.us about security and programming. Since 2014, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “An Analysis of the CAs trusted by iOS 8.0”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its 2014 analysis of certificate authorities in the trusted root store, offered as a list in a thread on CNNIC's response to Google.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

A. Karl Kornel's personal blog

The author on HN?

CaliforniaKarl · 10,041 karma · member since 2016

Hello! I work at Stanford University, at the Stanford Research Computing Center, as an HPC sysadmin. I have a blog: https://karl.kornel.us/ My HN handle is also my Twitter handle. My work email is a!k!kornel@stanford,edu (with ! removed and , corrected).

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Most-linked posts?

  1. An Analysis of the CAs trusted by iOS 8.0
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. It looks like not, but here's a list if it helps http://karl.kornel.us/2014/09/an-analysis-of-the-cas-trusted...

    Comment linking /2014/09/an-analysis-of-the-cas-trusted-by-ios-8-0/

    on “CNNIC's response to Google”
  2. Submitted Welp, there go my Git signatures as a story · 204 points

    HN discussion
  3. This is good. Side note: If you have _any_ responsibility for your office's phone system, do a 911 Test once a quarter. http://karl.kornel.us/2014/10/the-911-test/ (Shameless Plug!) At my previous company (which got bought by another company, and so no longer exists), we had a Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CUCM) 6.5 system. When I started, we had three voice T1s at HQ: Two were AT&T ISDN voice T1s, and had ou…

    Comment linking /2014/10/the-911-test/

    on “FCC to examine problems with 911 calling in enterprise systems [pdf]”
  4. Submitted An Analysis of the CAs trusted by iOS 8.0 as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted An Analysis of the CAs trusted by iOS 8.0 as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion

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