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blog.cr4.sh is a personal blog at blog.cr4.sh about security and hardware. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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14mentions?
14HN people?
2014–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2016

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link cr4sh's blog for its UEFI and firmware security research, including full disclosures of Intel ME and Lenovo ThinkPad firmware exploits. One commenter says to check it out.

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. Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-29
  2. Exploiting AMI Aptio Firmware on Example of Intel NUC
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. ryanlol · 2017-09-21Recommends
    >And I have no idea who cr4sh is Check out http://blog.cr4.sh/

    Comment linking /

    on “How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME”
  2. lelf · 2014-11-15

    Submitted Simple guest to host VM escape for Parallels Desktop as a story · 93 points

    HN discussion
  3. zarriak · 2016-07-03
    From his article about this >Patch for this vulnerability is currently not available, I decided to do the full disclosure because the main goal of my UEFI series articles is to share the knowledge, not to make vendors and their users happy. Also, I don’t have enough resources to check the vulnerability on all of the Lenovo computers, so, if you have ThinkPad — it’s likely vulnerable, in case of other model lines I’d…

    Comment linking /2016/06/exploring-and-exploiting-lenovo.html

    on “Firmware exploit can defeat new Windows security features on Lenovo ThinkPads”
  4. aw3c2 · 2015-07-11

    Submitted Building reliable SMM backdoors for UEFI based platforms as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  5. fcambus · 2016-06-29

    Submitted Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  6. transpute · 2016-10-22

    Submitted Exploiting AMI Aptio Firmware on Example of Intel NUC as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  7. 2510c39011c5 · 2015-02-06

    Submitted Exploiting UEFI boot script table vulnerability as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  8. YAYERKA · 2015-03-21

    Submitted Automated algebraic cryptanalysis with OpenREIL and Z3 as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  9. net · 2016-02-25

    Submitted Exploiting SMM callout vulnerabilities in Lenovo firmware as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  10. peter_d_sherman · 2018-10-11

    Submitted Exploiting AMI Aptio Firmware on Example of Intel NUC as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. ner0x652 · 2016-07-04

    Submitted Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Cieplak · 2019-01-11

    Submitted Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets (2016) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. epsylon · 2015-09-13

    Submitted My aimful life: Breaking UEFI security with software DMA attacks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. adamnemecek · 2016-06-29

    Submitted Exploring and exploiting Lenovo firmware secrets as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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