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Dan Stillman
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Dan Stillman's personal blog at danstillman.com covers programming and security. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions Is Security Theater”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Stillman's blog for his 2015 post arguing that automated scanning of Firefox extensions is security theater. Commenters cite it in discussions of Mozilla's add-on review process.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions Is Security Theater4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-11-24
What Hacker News says?
>1. Fixing the extension "code review" process, which is a mess. Make it be actually automatic 99% of the time and not a big hassle Also read as "doing the literally impossible (but not really)". http://danstillman.com/2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning...
Comment linking /2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning-is-security-theater
on “Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing”Submitted Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions Is Security Theater as a story · 41 points
HN discussionTheres also been quite heated discussions (and hostility from Mozilla devs, to be frank) around the Zotero plugin, see e.g. Dan Stillman's 2015 blog post and email-list-threads linked there. https://danstillman.com/2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scannin... Edit: for those who don't want to dig, a random quote: "Shortly before we left AMO [Firefox's integrated addon channel], an AMO editor publicly told someone asking…
Comment linking /2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning-is-security-theater?firefox-against-censorship
on “Mozilla and Microsoft are rebuilding their browsers’ foundations”Submitted Show HN: A browser extension to remind you who people are in articles you read as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is fallout from Dan Stillman's "Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions Is Security Theater" work last week: http://danstillman.com/2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10618773
Comment linking /2015/11/23/firefox-extension-scanning-is-security-theater
on “Mozilla backs off on validating Firefox Add-on code”Submitted Automated Scanning of Firefox Extensions Is Security Theater as a story · 3 points
HN discussion