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Allison Husain

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Allison Husain writes Home on Ezhes, a personal blog at ezh.es about security and systems. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2020–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2020

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

Why HN links it

The linked post is about an email-routing problem involving SPF records and a 2020 Gmail outage. The comment only asks whether the post explains the outage and says nothing about the writing.

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.

Tall Tales of the Tailed Z’s # A technical blog about terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days electronic things. Hi! I’m Allison Husain # I’m a software engineer turned security researcher with a special interest in SoCs and CPU microarchitecture. I build operating systems, find and write zero-cl

Most-linked posts?

  1. Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Was this the reason for the outage? https://ezh.es/blog/2020/08/the-confused-mailman-sending-spf... edit: I see that there was a HN post about the blog post earlier with discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24229180

    Comment linking /blog/2020/08/the-confused-mailman-sending-spf-and-dmarc-passing-mail-as-any-gmail-or-g-suite-customer/

    on “Google fixes major Gmail bug seven hours after exploit details go public”
  2. Submitted Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or G Suite customer as a story · 213 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Benchmarking Popular Markdown Parsers on iOS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Confused Mailman: Sending SPF and DMARC passing mail as any Gmail or GSuite user as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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