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HAXX.IN is a personal blog at haxx.in about security and hardware. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Hacking the Canon ImageCLASS MF742Cdw/MF743Cdw (Again)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link haxx.in for security research write-ups and proof-of-concept exploits, such as the polkit pkexec privilege escalation (Pwnkit) and a Python RCE via untrusted float input.
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?
- Hacking the Canon ImageCLASS MF742Cdw/MF743Cdw (Again)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-28
What Hacker News says?
POC (tweet + direct link) https://twitter.com/bl4sty/status/1486092552755466242 https://haxx.in/files/blasty-vs-pkexec.c
Comment linking /files/blasty-vs-pkexec.c
on “Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)”Submitted Hacking Printers Using Fonts as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHey! Original discoverer here. I would like to clarify some things. It would certainly be possible given that we can have numeric shell-code (check the reference). The real problem in here is the security mechanisms like stack cookies, brute-forcing those would have been a PITA with only numbers. But I'd have to take a closer look at the stack god knows what GCC could have done there :) On a system without these pro…
Comment linking /posts/numeric-shellcode/
on “Python 3.x: RCE in Python applications that accept floats as untrusted input”Submitted Hacking the Canon ImageCLASS MF742Cdw/MF743Cdw (Again) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking the Canon ImageCLASS MF742Cdw/MF743Cdw (Again) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking the Canon ImageCLASS MF742Cdw/MF743Cdw (Again) [2023] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted upc_keys.c – WPA2 passphrase recovery tool for UPC devices as a story · 2 points
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