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Corey Prophitt
Personal blog · prophitt.me · on HN as prophittcoreysecurityprogramming
Corey Prophitt's personal blog at prophitt.me covers security and programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Corey Prophitt's posts on a LinkedIn page that probes visitors for installed Chrome extensions, and on the motivation and technology choices behind a website monitor he built.
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.
Husband, father of two, shaper of bits.
What Hacker News says?
I recently posted a blog post that exposed a similar issue involving Chrome extension. The issue in particular is how LinkedIn makes local web requests to try an identify which extensions you have installed: https://prophitt.me/articles/nefarious-linkedin
Comment linking /articles/nefarious-linkedin
on “A problem worse than Zoom?”Submitted A Modern Web App in C as a story · 716 points
HN discussionHappy to get the initial feature set complete and launched. I wrote about my motivation and technology choices on my blog: https://prophitt.me/i-built-a-monitoring-service
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on “Show HN: A simple website monitor with email and IRC notifications”Submitted How LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from the browser as a story · 510 points
HN discussionFinding relevant content creators for outreach takes far too long. I've been building a curated dataset to make the process easier. I add new data daily and submission forms are coming soon so creators can add their own channels or claim and update their listings. I previously wrote about the tech behind it here: https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
Comment linking /writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
on “Find Creators to Play Your Game”Submitted LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted A self-inflicted data breach as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revisiting Bookmarklets as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A look at how LinkedIn exfiltrates extension data from their users (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choosing Dependencies as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Bookmarklets are fun, and GitHub's privacy defaults suck as a story · 1 points
HN discussion