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Hari Govind
Personal blog · harigovind.org/articlessystemssecurity
Hari Govind's personal blog at harigovind.org covers systems and security. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Who is hijacking my NXDOMAINs”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hari Govind's posts on removing Samsung preinstalled bloatware and on a D-Link router's default DHCP domain causing NXDOMAIN hijacking. The comments only cite the posts as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Who is hijacking my NXDOMAINs3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-04-07
What Hacker News says?
I had a Samsung phone and did the same with mine. Wrote a small tutorial here( https://harigovind.org/notes/removing-samsung-android-bloatw... ). But even then, these apps will pop right back after system updates and those were becoming more frequent. I got rid of it shortly after, nowadays I use Moto where bloatwares are comparatively minimal.
Comment linking /notes/removing-samsung-android-bloatware/
on “Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA”Submitted Who is hijacking my NXDOMAINs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy D-Link router had domain.name as the default dhcp domain name, which caused some of my devices connected to it to resolve <whatever.tld>.domain.name when <whatever.tld> fails to resolve and someone have set up ad pages in many .domain.name pages to take advantage of the flaw. I've recently blogged about it( https://harigovind.org/articles/who-is-hijacking-my-nxdomain... ). Need to be always careful when configuri…
Comment linking /articles/who-is-hijacking-my-nxdomains/
on “Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t”Submitted Who is hijacking my NXDOMAINs? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who is hijacking my NXDOMAINs as a story · 2 points
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