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firefart
Personal blog · firefart.at/postsecurityhardware
firefart is a personal blog at firefart.at about security and hardware. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards (2015)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on the MIFARE Classic static encrypted nonce attack. The post is a how-to for cracking MIFARE Classic cards, and one commenter says they used the tutorial to get free vending machine food.
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.
that austrian security guy
Most-linked posts?
- How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-22
- How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Something like 8 years ago I used this tutorial to get unlimited food at the uni vending machine. Good times. https://firefart.at/post/how-to-crack-mifare-classic-cards/
Comment linking /post/how-to-crack-mifare-classic-cards/
on “MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]”Submitted How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving the rhme2 “whac the mole” challenge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UPC Ubee EVW3226 Fail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Crack Mifare Classic Cards with Raspberry Pi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solving the rhme2 “whac the mole” challenge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted UPC Ubee EVW3226 Fail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to crack MIFARE Classic cards as a story · 1 points
HN discussion