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Emily M. Stark
Personal blog · emilymstark.comsecurityweb
Emily M. Stark's personal blog at emilymstark.com covers security and web. Since 2020, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Death to the Line of Death”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Emily M. Stark's post on the "line of death", the visible boundary between browser chrome and web page content. It is cited as a reference in a discussion of Microsoft placing ads in Chrome.
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.
Personal website of Emily Stark
Most-linked posts?
- Death to the Line of Death3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-19
- E2EE on the web: is the web that bad?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-10
- Debunking the “users always click yes” myth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-15
- Why even a little plaintext matters?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-08
- End-to-End Encryption on the Web: Isolating Plaintext2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-10
- Pa(dding|rtitioning) oracles, and another hot take on PAKEs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-02
- Splitting Up Trust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-17
What Hacker News says?
• https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/ Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400291 , < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30721728 > • https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/19/browser_line_of_death... • https://emilymstark.com/2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-deat... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074966
Comment linking /2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-death.html
on “Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website”Submitted E2EE on the web: is the web that bad? as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSubmitted Certificate Transparency: a bird's-eye view as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted When a web PKI certificate won't cut it as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Splitting Up Trust as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted After-the-Fact Warnings as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why even a little plaintext matters? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why even a little plaintext matters as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted E2EE on the web: is the web that bad? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted End-to-End Encryption on the Web: Isolating Plaintext as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pa(dding|rtitioning) oracles, and another hot take on PAKEs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should web apps use PAKEs? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debunking the “users always click yes” myth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's the right UX for an expired certificate? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Death to the Line of Death as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Certificate Transparency is not a replacement for key pinning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Splitting Up Trust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pa(dding|rtitioning) oracles, and another hot take on PAKEs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted EV as a defense against malicious DV as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted E2EE on the web: is the web that bad? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted E2EE on the Web: Isolating Plaintext as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Line of Death as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The fundamental laws of private information retrieval as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strict Transport Security vs. HTTPS Resource Records: The Showdown as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Debunking the “users always click yes” myth as a story · 1 points
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