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Daniel B. Cid

Personal blog · dcid.me/notessecurityprogramming

Daniel B. Cid writes Daniel Cid, a personal blog at dcid.me about security and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Daniel B. Cid's posts on security tooling: OSSEC, flaws in log analysis tools, SSH attack logs, and how to get involved in Linux and OpenSSL projects. None of the comments judge the writing itself.

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.

Daniel B. Cid - Personal website - Founder of OSSEC, Sucuri, CleanBrowsing, NOC and Trunc. Builder, Hacker, breaker.

What Hacker News says?

  1. I managed an open source project (OSSEC) for many years and this was a common question I would hear. I gave some hints here: http://dcid.me/notes/2013-may-12 That I hope can be useful for you. thanks,

    Comment linking /notes/2013-may-12

    on “Ask HN: How can I get involved with Linux/OpenSSL/GnuPG/etc”
  2. Submitted Using Phones/SMS as 2FA – Why I am not a believer as a story · 28 points

    HN discussion
  3. Not new: http://dcid.me/texts/attacking-log-analysis-tools.html It had a similar vuln many years ago.

    Comment linking /texts/attacking-log-analysis-tools.html

    on “Fail2ban security update”
  4. Submitted Always assume the worst - You are likely being watched by not only the NSA as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  5. Better yet, deploy OSSEC there. I would recommend it with the latest patches from here: https://dcid.me/ossec/

    Comment linking /ossec/

    on “3 months and 1M SSH attempts later”
  6. Submitted HTTPS is one of the least important things you can do to secure your site as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion

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