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Alex Studer
Personal blog · thatoddmailbox.github.iohardwaresecurity
Alex Studer's personal blog at thatoddmailbox.github.io covers hardware and security. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on the IOTA seed generator hack. One commenter cites it to warn that a hosted copy of open-source code may differ from the published source.
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.
Hi! I’m Alex Studer.
Most-linked posts?
- How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-28
What Hacker News says?
Keep in mind that, just because it's open source, and possibly hosted on github pages doesn't mean that the hosted copy is the same as the open-source. Referring to the IOTA seed generator hack that happened earlier this year. ( https://thatoddmailbox.github.io/2018/01/28/iotaseed.html ) (not my site).
Comment linking /2018/01/28/iotaseed.html
on “Show HN: Textile – Return Facebook photo exports back to nicely-named galleries”Submitted How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M as a story · 242 points
HN discussionSubmitted How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a period-accurate replica Soviet microcomputer as a story · 1 points
HN discussion