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Davblog
Personal blog · blog.dave.org.ukculturewriting
Davblog is a personal blog at blog.dave.org.uk about culture and writing. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on password security, including a 2008 post on why the author won't give Twitter passwords to third-party apps. One comment discusses the Moonpig.com data exposure.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
In which someone you've never heard of writes about things you have no interest in
What Hacker News says?
Photobox acquired Moonpig in 2011 [1]. In 2010, Photobox got called out for emailing passwords in plaintext[2], and were quick to take to twitter to say "It will never happen again."[3] At that point, it had only been happening for 4 years [4]. Coupled with the tone of the job advert already posted by others [5], it doesn't seem too hard to imagine a corporate culture where security is not a serious concern until th…
Comment linking /2006/06/more-password-s.html
on “Moonpig.com Vulnerability – Exposes customer data”Submitted LoveFilm and Silverlight as a story · 2 points
HN discussioninteresting concept and this might actually be useful to me as I "follow" something like 700 or 800 ppl. on the other hand, i will not be able to use it. my twitter password is for me and me only: http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/12/twitter-and-passwords.html isn't there a way to use this with the user's currently logged in twitter cookie/session or some such like http://twitpay.me does?
Comment linking /2008/12/twitter-and-passwords.html
on “Ask HN: Rate my webapp, Tweet Link Monster”