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G. S. McNamara

Personal blog · maverickblogging.comsecurityweb

G. S. McNamara writes MaverickBlogging, a personal blog at maverickblogging.com about security and web. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails Web applications”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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5mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

G. S. McNamara's technology and art blog

Most-linked posts?

  1. Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails Web applications
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. dgellow · 2013-10-14

    Submitted Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails Web applications as a story · 84 points

    HN discussion
  2. gsmcnamara · 2014-09-26

    Submitted Check your WYSIWYG text editors for attribute-based cross-site scripting (XSS) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. RailsResearch · 2013-11-21

    Submitted List of 1,897 websites using Ruby on Rails' CookieStore for session management as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. stigi · 2013-10-14

    Submitted Security Vulnerability with Django Cookie-Based Sessions | MaverickBlogging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. RailsResearch · 2013-09-27

    Submitted Logout is broken by default in Ruby on Rails applications as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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