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Hey, it's Asim

Personal blog · heyitsas.imsecurityai

Hey, it's Asim is a personal blog at heyitsas.im about security and ai. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
8HN people?
2026–2026first – last linked?

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

A single HN commenter links a post about CIFSwitch, offered as an example of a workaround for not having sudo access on a PC, in a thread about Codex finding one.

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Notes on LLM-assisted vulnerability hunting

Most-linked posts?

  1. CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-05-28
  2. Getting LLMs Drunk to Find Remote Linux Kernel OOB Writes (and More)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. tominous · 2026-06-01
    Here's one (CIFSwitch) from a couple of days ago: https://heyitsas.im/posts/cifswitch/

    Comment linking /posts/cifswitch/

    on “Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC”
  2. speckx · 2026-05-28

    Submitted CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. campuscodi · 2026-05-31

    Submitted CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. cosuhi · 2026-06-02

    Submitted CIFSwitch: A non-universal Linux local root vulnerability as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. hnpufflib · 2026-04-07

    Submitted Spooler Alert: Remote Unauth'd RCE-to-Root Chain in CUPS as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. c0balt · 2026-07-28

    Submitted OVSwrap: Another Linux LPE as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. schmuhblaster · 2026-06-27

    Submitted Getting LLMs Drunk to Find Remote Linux Kernel OOB Writes (and More) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. axbyte · 2026-06-04

    Submitted CIFSswitch – local privilege escalation vulnerability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. hnpufflib · 2026-05-09

    Submitted Getting LLMs Drunk to Find Remote Linux Kernel OOB Writes (and More) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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