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Charlie Arehart

Personal blog · carehart.org/blogprogrammingsystems

Charlie Arehart's personal blog at carehart.org covers programming and systems. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

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

Why HN links it

Charlie Arehart's blog on ColdFusion. HN readers link a 2013 post about a ColdFusion scheduler bug that exposed the /CFIDE/ administrative directory, cited as background for a Linode breach discussion.

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.

CArehart.org is the site of veteran server troubleshooter Charlie Arehart, who serves the community with consulting, tuning, and configuration support and training. He's also a frequent author and speaker. Here you'll find such resources as his blog, past articles and presentations, UGTV, CF411, and

What Hacker News says?

  1. jhardcastle · 2013-04-16
    This is not a brand new 0-day. This is a bug that Adobe communicated and patched months ago, a bug that affected a lot of folks who didn't follow the standard practice of locking down an administrative directory on the website. http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2013/1/2/serio... The basic overview is this: CF servers have an administrative portal at /cfide/. A bug in the scheduler code (think cron) allow…

    Comment linking /blog/client/index.cfm/2013/1/2/serious_security_threat

    on “Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked”
  2. speckx · 2026-10-07

    Submitted Curious bug where cfpm CLI commands may fail unexpectedly, tracker ticket filed as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. bdcravens · 2016-02-19

    Submitted Released today: CF2016, or 'ColdFusion (2016 release)' as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. rmason · 2023-10-07

    Submitted Testing if a port can be reached, using built-in tools other than ol' telnet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. bdcravens · 2013-01-03

    Submitted Major remote code execution bug in Adobe ColdFusion as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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