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Garf's blog
Personal blog · morbo.orgprogrammingsecurity
Garf's blog is a personal blog at morbo.org about programming and security. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Garf's posts on browser security: Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox and Chrome's seccomp approach, and the false positives behind browser malware-detection claims. Comments cite them as sources.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 573 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-11
What Hacker News says?
> I have less understanding of where Firefox does sandboxing, how it works across platforms, etc. Whereas I have a solid understanding of how Chrome uses seccomp on Linux. It's described in detail here: * https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox * http://www.morbo.org/2017/11/linux-sandboxing-improvements-i...
Comment linking /2017/11/linux-sandboxing-improvements-in.html
on “How Firefox Got Fast Again”Submitted Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60 as a story · 401 points
HN discussionhttp://www.morbo.org/2017/11/linux-sandboxing-improvements-i...
Comment linking /2017/11/linux-sandboxing-improvements-in.html
on “How Firefox Got Fast Again”Submitted Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 57 as a story · 276 points
HN discussionIt doesn't help Microsoft that they have been beating their own drum about the "superior" malware detection performance in Internet Explorer, as compared to other browsers. I already pointed out months ago that this was mostly an illusion due to their greater amount of false positives: http://www.morbo.org/2011/08/note-on-malware-detection-perfo...
Comment linking /2011/08/note-on-malware-detection-performance.html
on “Dropbox flagged as unsafe by IE”Submitted Technical Debt, Episode 1 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Java wat as a story · 2 points
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