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Digital Naïve
Personal blog · jomo.tvsecurityprogramming
Digital Naïve is a personal blog at jomo.tv about security and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link the author's OS X update simulator, a joke page that fakes a macOS update progress bar. One comment also cites the author's name-free note on a WebRTC VPN IP leak thread, but without judging the writing.
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.
jomo's blog about privacy, software, security
What Hacker News says?
While this has long been known, I was never able to actually reproduce this and I'm not sure how it's technically even supposed to work. Assuming we're using IPv4, the default gateway is a VPN and the machine is behind a NAT: Any outside service (e.g. STUN server) would see the VPN's IP address. How would the browser even technically be able to know the public (i.e. the NAT's) IP address? However, the WebExtensions…
Comment linking /security/pf-prevent-traffic-bypassing-vpn
on “VPN leaks users’ IPs via WebRTC”Submitted Show HN: Isometric Painting Tool as a story · 43 points
HN discussionFunny idea, but apart from the Windows themes they don't look very clean. It reminds me of the OS X update simulator I made after updating to Yosemite: http://jomo.tv/osxupdatesimulator/
Comment linking /osxupdatesimulator/
on “Dont want to do work? Create a simple progressbar”Submitted Pwning an online retailer via public .git directory as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted About Domain Validation and Padlocks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted About Domain Validation and Padlocks as a story · 2 points
HN discussion