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Andrew Moore
Personal blog · andrewmoore.ca/blogsecurityprogramming
Andrew Moore's personal blog at andrewmoore.ca covers security and programming. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Mozilla's privacy-preserving ad attribution proposal, anticheat and Secure Boot, and TPM-based CPU identifiers. HN commenters link them as references in discussions of those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts and ramblings of a technology enthusiast. Personal website of Andrew Moore.
Most-linked posts?
- Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-15
- Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-17
What Hacker News says?
They are focussing on privacy. They just didn’t communicate their approach very well. https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/
Comment linking /blog/post/mozilla-ppa/
on “"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again”Submitted Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines as a story · 62 points
HN discussionModern TPMs are fTPMs and are essentially in the CPU package. Each TPM 2.0 has a unique Endorsement Key (EK). Thus, every CPU has a unique identifier, which assuming the fTPM is correct (big if), cannot be changed. https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/anticheat-secure-boot-tpm/
Comment linking /blog/post/anticheat-secure-boot-tpm/
on “Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL”Submitted Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou can't reference Claude Shannon and information theory and then say a system to serve ads that preserves privacy can't exist. It's especially ironic because they use a technique called Differential Privacy to prevent any actual bits of information from being leaked to advertisers: https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/#user-content-f... / https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16719
Comment linking /blog/post/mozilla-ppa/
on “A word about private attribution in Firefox”Submitted Misconceptions about Firefox's Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement as a story · 1 points
HN discussion