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Gregory Alvarez
Personal blog · alvarez.io/postssecuritycultureproductivity
Gregory Alvarez's personal blog at alvarez.io covers security, culture and productivity. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “High Security, Plausible Deniability,Two Factor Encryption: You're the Weak Link”. The last post was in 2021, 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 a thread on plausibly deniable encryption as a related technique, two-factor encryption. The one comment gives a pointer only and does not assess the 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.
Gregory Alvarez personal website, ex-professional hacker, entrepreneur and minimalist.
Most-linked posts?
- High Security, Plausible Deniability,Two Factor Encryption: You're the Weak Link3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-20
- Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-02-19
What Hacker News says?
Another technique if you are interested, two factor encryption: https://www.alvarez.io/posts/two-factor-encryption/
Comment linking /posts/two-factor-encryption/
on “Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)”Submitted Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone as a story · 156 points
HN discussionHey guys! I'm Greg - I used to be a hacker for governments (More info about me here: https://www.alvarez.io ) I love Dropbox, but the fact that my data is on somebody else’s server bothered me a lot. I tried to find the same app that allowed me to choose where to put my data. I tried the likes of Synology, MyCloud WD, ownCloud, Syncthing, Resilio, Duplicty, rsync,... The software that gives you an easy experience is…
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on “Show HN: I built an app that converts your router into a private cloud”Submitted Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone as a story · 94 points
HN discussionHey guys! Wanted to share with you what I've just launched, after 4 years on it, and a little background story: I love Dropbox, but the fact that my data is on somebody else’s server bothered me a lot. I tried to find the same app that allowed me to choose where to put my data. I tried the likes of Synology, MyCloud WD, ownCloud, Syncthing, Resilio, Duplicty, rsync,... The software that gives you an easy experience…
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on “Show HN: I built an app that converts your router into a private cloud”Submitted High Security, Plausible Deniability,Two Factor Encryption: You're the Weak Link as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living Like It's 99: No Social Media – No Smartphone as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You're the Weak Link: High Security, Plausible Deniability, 2 Factor Encryption as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted High Security, Plausible Deniability and Two Factor Encryption as a story · 1 points
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