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Bjorn Pagen

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Bjorn Pagen's personal blog at bjornpagen.com covers security and systems. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Desktop Linux is insecure – 2023”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2020–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked by HN readers in a thread on Linux desktop market share as a critique of desktop Linux security. The comments cite it alongside two other articles on Linux's insecurities.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Desktop Linux is insecure – 2023
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-10

What Hacker News says?

  1. In my previous reply, I linked three articles which discuss the technical details extensively: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-insecurities/ https://bjornpagen.com/en_US/desktop%20linux%20is%20insecure A brief summary: No trusted boot, no clear security boundaries between system and applications, no application sandboxing, lack of mitigations (both on kernel…

    Comment linking /en_US/desktop%20linux%20is%20insecure

    on “Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market”
  2. Submitted State of Linux Desktop Security as a story · 69 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-insecurities/ https://bjornpagen.com/en_US/desktop%20linux%20is%20insecure

    Comment linking /en_US/desktop%20linux%20is%20insecure

    on “Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market”
  4. Submitted Desktop Linux is insecure – 2023 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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