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David Longenecker
Personal blog · securityforrealpeople.com · on HN as dnlongensecurityculture
David Longenecker writes Security for Real People, a personal blog at securityforrealpeople.com about security and culture. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on security and privacy in consumer devices, such as Motorola modem CSRF flaws, router firmware and Dynamic DNS, and data sharing in AsusWRT. Commenters cite them as sources for their own points.
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.
Practical cyber security advice, digital forensics, and parenting in the digital age, with family and faith woven in. By David Longenecker.
What Hacker News says?
Speaking of rebooting vulnerabilities, I'm reminded of the CSRF vulnerability in the popular Motorola SB6141 modem. Not only can, say, a embedded resource in a forum reboot your modem, it can also request reprovisioning, which can take you offline for up to half an hour. It's been fixed, at least by my local TWC, but I wonder if all ISPs have rolled out the firmware update. https://www.securityforrealpeople.com/2016…
Comment linking /2016/04/arris-motorola-surfboard-modem.html
on “Google Home (in)Security”Submitted Poor UX leads to poorly secured SoHo routers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use an Asus RT-68P. The EULA did scare me off from running all of the services listed in the article, with the exception of "Web History", where I do not recall having seen any indication that my history would be leaked. But, regardless I just turned off that function. I agree with the author's disappointment in Dynamic DNS support. But, I followed instructions on the web[1] and added a cheap USB thumb-drive to ru…
Comment linking /2015/08/cron-on-asus.html
on “AsusWRT sends network traffic data to Trend Micro if certain features enabled”Submitted How to build a $10 passive network tap (10/100 mbit) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted New forensics tool: RegLister finds malware hiding in the Windows registry as a story · 1 points
HN discussion