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cranklin.com
Personal blog · cranklin.wordpress.comprogrammingsecurity
cranklin.com is a personal blog at cranklin.wordpress.com about programming and security. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Let's Create Our Own Cryptocurrency”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link cranklin.com posts about hacking Square card readers, including using one with a reel-to-reel tape machine, and about Square readers being used as credit card skimmers.
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.
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Most-linked posts?
- Let's Create Our Own Cryptocurrency2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-07-11
- Hacking the Square with Arduino2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-06-16
- Creating an ELF Virus Using Assembly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-26
What Hacker News says?
I think this is it. Square probably means that as they read the bits from the reader they are being encrypted, then sent. Not stored and plain text then encrypted before being sent. There are already plenty of examples of people hacking Squares[1], mostly to use them as credit card skimmers though. This is one of the coolest most creative hacks I have seen for it though, bravo. [1] http://cranklin.wordpress.com/2012…
Comment linking /2012/01/04/hacking-the-square/
on “Using a Square Reader with a reel-to-reel”Submitted Let's Create Our Own Cryptocurrency as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s Create Our Own Cryptocurrency as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating an ELF Virus Using Assembly as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Experimental Doorbell as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking is so easy, even a computer can do it as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s Build an Ethereum Lottery Contract with Scheduled Triggers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create a virus using the assembly language as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted So You Think You Have What it Takes to Start a Business? (Engineer's POV) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating an ELF Virus with Assembly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking the Square with Arduino as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't beat me in a Facebook poke battle. Here's why... as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So You Think You Have What it Takes to Start a Business? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lunch Cam Money Jar Hack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted That Time I Got Pwned for .2 ETH as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted How I (unintentionally) Killed My Instagram Account - Bots as a story · 1 points
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HN discussionSubmitted How to make a simple computer virus with Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crack This Password as a story · 1 points
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