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Florian Sander
Personal blog · kreativrauschen.com/blog · on HN as Geeflowsecurityprogramming
Florian Sander writes Kreativrauschen, a personal blog at kreativrauschen.com about security and programming. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Data Retention Effectively Changes the Behavior of Citizens in Germany ”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Florian Sander's posts on data retention and surveillance, and on a 2010 OpenX security vulnerability, as sources and background. The comments do not evaluate the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I create (conceptualize, implement and operate) software products. I’ve been at it since the 90s and some of my creations from that time are still in use today (see eggdrop). Nowadays I focus on SaaS software. My latest product is Repty, a spaced repetition learning app for young children. Other pro
Most-linked posts?
- Data Retention Effectively Changes the Behavior of Citizens in Germany 2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-06-05
What Hacker News says?
After some quite heavy searching, I finally found the original source. Google is really not very good in finding articles written 4 years ago, and it is even more difficulty if you don't remember the language it was written in :). For an English blog writing about the report (original in German, and linked in the blog post): http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2008/06/04/data-retentio... I have no idea however from…
Comment linking /blog/2008/06/04/data-retention-effectively-changes-the-behavior-of-citizens-in-germany/
on “Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook”Submitted My Experience Using ChatGPT/GPT-3 to Power App Features as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSorry, meant to say a study. There are studies that look at the localized effect of surveillance (in the work place, on the street, on a park...), but I have not seen more than this study that try to look at the effect society gets from ubiquitous surveillance. link: http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2008/06/04/data-retentio...
Comment linking /blog/2008/06/04/data-retention-effectively-changes-the-behavior-of-citizens-in-germany/
on “Big Data Firm Says It Can Link Snowden Data To Changed Terrorist Behavior”Submitted Zero Day Vulnerability in OpenX Source 2.8.11 and Revive Adserver 3.0.1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI got bitten by this too, and when I discovered why I was livid. https://svn.openx.org/openx/tags/2.8/openx-2.8.6/plugins_rep... This third party plugin is automatically installed and enabled by the installer. No admin authentication, wide open access to upload and run PHP. More details can be found at http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2010/09/09/critical-vuln... and if www/admin/plugins/videoReport/lib/tmp-upload…
Comment linking /blog/2010/09/09/critical-vulnerability-in-openx-286-open-flash-chart-2/
on “Using OpenX? Time to upgrade - Serious vulnerability found”Submitted Zero-day vulnerability in OpenX Source ad server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Retention Effectively Changes the Behavior of Citizens in Germany as a story · 1 points
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