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Gurkirat Singh
Personal blog · tbhaxor.comsecuritysystemsprogramming
Gurkirat Singh writes tbhaxor's Blog, a personal blog at tbhaxor.com about security, systems and programming. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on Linux capabilities, which split root's powers into separate privileges. One commenter cites it only as a pointer to the topic, with no judgment of 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.
Hey there, I am Gurkirat Singh (aka tbhaxor). This is my secret cave, where I will share my knowledge of computer science, mathematics, and physics. Read more
What Hacker News says?
Capabilities were supposed to split up the need to having a single root account that could do everything. I'm not sure how far it has gone. https://tbhaxor.com/understanding-linux-capabilities/ https://blog.container-solutions.com/linux-capabilities-in-p...
Comment linking /understanding-linux-capabilities/
on “Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (1990)”Submitted Linux Privilege Escalation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why pivot root is used instead of chroot at runc as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Are WLAN Infrastructures in Enterprises Secured? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robust Security Network and Extended Authentication Protocol in Detail as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Series on Offensive Wi-Fi Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WiFi Standard 802.11ac Packet Analysis as a story · 1 points
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