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Günter Born
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Günter Born writes BornCity, a personal blog at borncity.com about security and programming. Since 2016, 56 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- /win/2018/11/06/ssd-vulnerability-breaks-bitlocker-encryption/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-16
- Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-20
- Migration from Outlook Classic to New Outlook Starts in 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-10
- Nation wide disruption with Verifone H5000 payment terminals in Germany2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Last month, my friend's HP Laserjet Pro printer started flashing "SUPPLY PROBLEM" error message and wouldn't print anything. Apparently, all he did was update the firmware after a message popped up on the printer urging him to do so. Well, that firmware update included new DRM checks for non-HP toners. The printer would just refuse to work with 3rd party toner cartridges. I had to help him and had to find an old fir…
Comment linking /win/2020/11/08/hp-firmware-update-for-ink-laser-printers-blocks-third-party-cartridges-nov-2020/
on “Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink”Submitted Microsoft no longer signs Windows drivers for Process Hacker as a story · 650 points
HN discussion> Especially, as Windows updates, given basically infinite combination of hardware (often broken) and software (broken even more often) are super rock solid. Apart from breaking SSDs [0] less than two weeks ago. And deleting your certificates in November [3]. And breaking Kerberos in November [4]. And moving your files to another user in February [1]. And breaking their own reset feature in February [2]. All of thos…
Comment linking /win/2020/12/18/windows-10-20h2-chkdsk-damages-file-system-on-ssds-with-update-kb4592438-installed/
on “SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code”Submitted Google collects metadata from Android phones as a story · 490 points
HN discussionIt's even worse now https://borncity.com/win/2023/03/11/windows-10-11-mock-folde...
Comment linking /win/2023/03/11/windows-10-11-mock-folders-as-uac-bypass-security-disaster-leverage-applocker-and-srp/
on “Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z”Submitted Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed as a story · 426 points
HN discussionIt's hit and miss. They have one of the largest cyber security operations worldwide and regularly track and dismantle criminal operations. There's some great people working there. Then there's Azure. Which is used by large organizations and you would expect it to have the utmost care when it comes to security. But it often does badly, in several instances it allowed different tenants to access information from one a…
Comment linking /win/2023/08/03/microsoft-as-a-security-risk-azure-vulnerability-unpatched-since-march-2023-heavy-criticism-from-tenable-part-2/
on “A Brazilian CA trusted only by Microsoft has issued a certificate for google.com”Submitted Microsoft confirms Exchange Year 2022 problem as a story · 240 points
HN discussionMine doesn't have the allow downgrades option I think. But this worked for me: > "Unplug printer’s power cord from the back of the printer Press and HOLD the power button Plug power cord back in (keep holding power button) The HP logo will appear then the screen will go blank Hold power button for 10 seconds and then release it Press HOME BUTTON ONCE (top left) Press RETURN/BACK ARROW ONCE (bottom left) Press HOME B…
Comment linking /win/2018/09/19/blocks-hp-firmware-update-third-party-ink-catriges-again/
on “How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges”Submitted Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover as a story · 108 points
HN discussionThe founders of the Miniaturwunderland Hamburg were in the media describing how they push back against smartphones and media in their family life: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ndr-talk-show/miniatur-wun... Strange coincidence: shortly after they were hacked https://www.borncity.com/blog/2025/11/12/miniatur-wunderland...
Comment linking /blog/2025/11/12/miniatur-wunderland-kreditkartendatenabfluss-nach-cyberangriff
on “Where do the children play?”Submitted Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu as a story · 81 points
HN discussionNot the first of such stories either: https://borncity.com/win/2020/08/16/microsoft-kontensperrung... This is why I explicitly make on-site backups of anything that's in the cloud and don't store my passwords with Apple. If they suddenly decided I had CSAM for some reason, I'd be locked out of everything.
Comment linking /win/2020/08/16/microsoft-kontensperrungen-und-die-onedrive-nacktfotos/
on “The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking chats”Submitted Microsoft Restores Deleted Technet and MSDN Blogs as a story · 80 points
HN discussionWell, I don't think this build quality is solid [1]. With OpenWrt you have more freedom than FritzBox. But the UI is pretty idiot-proof indeed. [1] https://borncity.com/win/2024/07/20/fritzbox-7590-router-the...
Comment linking /win/2024/07/20/fritzbox-7590-router-the-2-4-ghz-wlan-is-dying-after-5-years/
on “Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit”Submitted Microsoft Office 2010: Can’t be activated anymore? as a story · 72 points
HN discussion> Every step towards "encrypt all the things" increases the cost of that interception. That's not the case at all, and a very dangerous idea. Some steps drive increased centralization. Increased centralization makes interception and filtering easier. The better solution is to push domain authentication to after the secure channel is established. That doesn't protect against active MITM snoopers, but neither does TLS…
Comment linking /win/2018/05/30/cloudflare-dns-service-1-1-1-1-hacked-from-china/
on “Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI”Submitted Microsoft Offers Windows 7 Extended Update Support to SMBs as a story · 53 points
HN discussionAfter this https://borncity.com/win/2018/11/06/ssd-vulnerability-breaks... Microsoft patched out support for self encrypting drives.
Comment linking /win/2018/11/06/ssd-vulnerability-breaks-bitlocker-encryption/
on “Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11”Submitted Stop: Disable the scanning of documents by Adobe AI solutions as a story · 40 points
HN discussionThere have been a lot of leaks over the years. W2K and NT4 got leaked in 2004, XP in 2020 [1], and that's just the publicly known leaks where stuff ended on the 'chan boards or torrent sites. It's more than likely that there have been more leaks (e.g. from one of the academia or government audit programs) that have never been widely dispersed. And yet, both WINE and ReactOS have refused to use the leaks; ReactOS doe…
Comment linking /win/2020/10/01/entwickler-compiliert-windows-xp-2003-quellcode-aus-leak/
on “Lapsus$ hackers leak 37GB of Microsoft's alleged source code”Submitted DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in Nirsoft tools as a story · 33 points
HN discussion> I looked at the USB 3 spec and couldn't find any guarantee that there was any number of devices you could plug into hubs and have it work. It's a controller and/or BIOS limitation[1][2]. The complication is that while USB devices can be addressed using 7 bits = 127 devices total, each device usually creates more than one endpoint, and each endpoint consumes controller and system memory resources. The BIOS allocate…
Comment linking /win/2019/09/06/windows-10-not-enough-usb-controller-resources/
on “The death of the PCIe expansion card”Submitted German OSB Alliance warns: Microsoft Cloud threatens digital sovereignty as a story · 27 points
HN discussionYou can enable experimental support for TLS 1.3 on Internet Explorer for Windows 10 (not for older Windows) in the advanced options tab. You should also disable third party add-ons and enable enhanced protected mode. If you also disable jscript.dll[1] you will get all the benefits of the IE shell that was posted here without having to download anything. [1] https://borncity.com/win/2020/01/18/warning-0-day-vulnerabi…
Comment linking /win/2020/01/18/warning-0-day-vulnerability-in-internet-explorer-0117-2020/
on “Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser”Submitted Why the free upgrade to Windows 10 still works as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI can only give German articles about this topic: > https://www.golem.de/news/datenschutz-windows-10-koennte-arb... > https://www.heise.de/ix/meldung/Datenschutz-Windows-10-koenn... > http://www.borncity.com/blog/2016/10/31/windows-10-und-das-d... > https://www.gi.de/aktuelles/zur-diskussion/detailansicht/art...
Comment linking /blog/2016/10/31/windows-10-und-das-datenschutzproblem-in-firmen/
on “Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support and only support Vulkan”Submitted Nation wide disruption with Verifone H5000 payment terminals in Germany as a story · 17 points
HN discussionWhen I hear 7zip I associate it with security vulnerabilities. I remember reading a couple of articles last year that said 7zip was maintained and distributed by a single person with not-stellar security practices, and most mirrors online are hosting old, insecure versions. Therefore I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that doesn't "know what they're doing" wrt security. source: https://borncity.com/win/2018/02/21/sec…
Comment linking /win/2018/02/21/security-risk-avoid-7-zip/
on “Even After Fix, Windows 10 Update Is Botching File Operations”Submitted Windows design flaw allows disabling user group policies as a story · 8 points
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