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Cutaway Security
Company blog · cutawaysecurity.com/blogsecurity
Cutaway Security is the company blog at cutawaysecurity.com, writing about security. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “File Content Histograms”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its post on file content histograms, a technique raised in a TrueCrypt discussion. One commenter shared a Python script that implements the idea.
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.
Cutaway Security helps industrial operators secure their ICS, SCADA, and OT environments without disrupting operations or compromising safety.
Most-linked posts?
- File Content Histograms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-03
What Hacker News says?
I found the idea of file histogram very interesting so I searched and found this nicely working Python script: http://www.cutawaysecurity.com/blog/file-content-histograms (needs Python2)
Comment linking /blog/file-content-histograms
on “TrueCrypt Discrepancy”Submitted File Content Histograms as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defcon mystery box challenge as a story · 1 points
HN discussion