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DiabloHorn
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DiabloHorn is a personal blog at diablohorn.com about security. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts concern a hidden keylogger in HP laptops, where a debugging feature uses trusted software to capture keystrokes. Only one comment mentions it, pointing to a different blog post on the same HP issue.
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.
Attempting to understand security
What Hacker News says?
I agree that the someone having access to run arbitrary code on a machine is a much bigger deal. In this case, the difference between this debugging feature and an installed keylogger is the use of trusted software to perform the keylogging. When the mictray issue came out earlier this year, I ran across a blog post you may find interesting [1]. To summarize, the author repurposed the HP executable to log keys to a…
Comment linking /2017/05/12/repurposing-the-hp-audio-key-logger/
on “HP laptops found to have hidden keylogger”Submitted Introduction to Physical Penetration Tests as a story · 3 points
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