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Gone Fishing.

Personal blog · thecontractor.iosecurity

Gone Fishing. is a personal blog at thecontractor.io about security. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6mentions?
3HN people?
2023–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment describes a Content-Security-Policy scanner that finds trusted domains and checks whether they can be registered. It says nothing about the blog's writing.

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.

Gone Fishing. Get in touch on LinkedIn.

What Hacker News says?

  1. CSP Header Analysis: Scans websites for Content Security Policy headers Domain Extraction: Identifies all external domains trusted by CSP policies Availability Checking: Uses AWS Route53 to check if trusted domains are available for registration PublicWWW Research: Discovers how available domains are used across the web (optional) Bug Bounty Reports: Auto-generates professional security reports High-Performance Scan…

    Comment linking /ghosted/

    on “Content-Security-Policy Trust Erosion Scanner”
  2. Submitted Conditional Privilege Escalation Synology DSM 7.3.2 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted My Problem with Hacklore (WiFi) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Bitwarden C2 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Aruba via VPN LPE+ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Data-Bouncing – The art of indirect exfiltration as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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