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All that is wrong with the world... is a personal blog at allthatiswrong.wordpress.com about security. Since 2010, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Insecurity of OpenBSD (2010)”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog to rebut tech-history and security claims, including Opera's early tabs and browser features, Steve Gibson's work, and OpenBSD's security posture. Commenters mostly cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Insecurity of OpenBSD (2010)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-03-06
- The insecurity of OpenBSD (Jan 2010)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-06-02
- /2011/01/14/opera-did-not-invent-tabbed-browsing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29
- /2009/10/11/steve-gibson-is-a-fraud/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-10
What Hacker News says?
https://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/steve-gibson... http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070622061544/http://www.grcsuc...
Comment linking /2009/10/11/steve-gibson-is-a-fraud/
on “The Big Vitamin D Mistake”Submitted OS X – Safe, yet horribly insecure as a story · 207 points
HN discussionAccording to this site with a bit of link-documentation, FF was first and the Opera-claim is false. https://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/opera-did-no...
Comment linking /2011/01/14/opera-did-not-invent-tabbed-browsing/
on “Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain”Submitted The Insecurity of OpenBSD (2010) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThank you for a comprehensive answer. I do not think that one vulnerability in 8+ years proofs insecurity of QubesOS (by the way, it was found by their developers). OpenBSD is not free from kernel vulnerabilities on such a long time scale. Security through correctness never works, because people are not ideal. (Xen developers are also trying to decrease the code base and make sure the code is as correct as possible.…
Comment linking /2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/
on “Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using”Submitted The insecurity of OpenBSD (Jan 2010) as a story · 30 points
HN discussionThat's not right. Opera had tabs in version 4, released in early 2000. Some people apparently think tabs has to be drag-and-droppable, which Opera had in 2003, in order to be called tabs: https://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/opera-did-no...
Comment linking /2011/01/14/opera-did-not-invent-tabbed-browsing/
on “Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)”Submitted A comparison of books for learning assembly language as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOpera didn't invent [modern] tabs http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/opera-did-not...
Comment linking /2011/01/14/opera-did-not-invent-tabbed-browsing/
on “The innovations of Internet Explorer”Submitted The insecurity of OpenBSD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWas this an inside joke?[1] 1. http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/steve-gibson-... 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510614
Comment linking /2009/10/11/steve-gibson-is-a-fraud/
on “Why HN Got Slow”Submitted The insecurity of OpenBSD (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe last time I saw a Steve Gibson discussion here, I bookmarked a few good links. http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/ http://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/ http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/steve-gibson-...
Comment linking /2009/10/11/steve-gibson-is-a-fraud/
on “Port scanner written in x86 assembly (32-bit)”Submitted The insecurity of OpenBSD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'll leave this link here as offering a contrasting view of openbsd's security posture, and talks about an orthogonal set of security features: http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurit...
Comment linking /2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/
on “Exploit Mitigation Techniques (2013)”Submitted The Insecurity of OpenBSD (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOn the subject of OpenBSD's approach to security, check this out: http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurit... The title is a little provocative, but the article is really worth it.
Comment linking /2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/
on “Windows and Security: Setting the Record Straight”Submitted Is making use of unprotected Wi-Fi stealing? as a story · 1 points
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