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Dangerous Errors
Personal blog · deadliestwebattacks.comsecurityprogramming
Dangerous Errors is a personal blog at deadliestwebattacks.com about security and programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links this blog's 2013 post on JavaScript security flaws and web attacks. A thread reply treats its claims about JavaScript insecurity as exaggerated.
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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What Hacker News says?
>Hyperbolic nonsense. Javascript couldn't even aspire to be as insecure as C. If that's hyperbole, I'm in stable orbit around earth. https://deadliestwebattacks.com/2013/01/22/know-your-javascr... https://www.cnet.com/news/faq-javascript-insecurities/ Wannabe "fiddlers" love JS as everything works. "They should peruse their Web site for cross-site scripting flaws and fix those." Every site is now cross-site with FB…
Comment linking /2013/01/22/know-your-javascript-injections/
on “From GNU social to Mastodon”Submitted Moving on from the OWASP Top (2023) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Appsec for Aviation Safety as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electric Skillet (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML Injection Quick Reference as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-Site Tracing (XST): The misunderstood vulnerability as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted HttpOnly cookies are accessible to Javascript as a story · 1 points
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