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Egor Homakov

Personal blog · homakov.github.iosecurityprogramming

Egor Homakov's personal blog at homakov.github.io covers security and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
4HN people?
2013–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Egor Homakov's blog posts demonstrate web security tricks, such as a CAPTCHA demo page and cross-frame manipulation via Googleusercontent.com iframes. Commenters link to the demos and describe how they work.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. /guc.html
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Trigger warning: passing the CAPTCHA on homakov's demo page ( https://homakov.github.io/nocaptcha.html ) registers an account (blog?) at wordpress.org.

    Comment linking /nocaptcha.html

    on “The No CAPTCHA problem”
  2. Submitted Camjacking: Click and say Cheese as a story · 11 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's simple really if you understand what's going on. iframe code can access `frames[0].document` cross domain. Clicking on the link within Google Translate iframe modifies target page on another domain. curl http://homakov.github.io/guc.html

    Comment linking /guc.html

    on “Googleusercontent.com fun”
  4. Submitted Hijacking your GitHub in one click as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Very interesting! URL manipulation also resulted in more goodies. http://homakov.github.io/

    Comment linking /

    on “Googleusercontent.com fun”
  6. no cookie/XSS or any real vuln here involved. This is completely standard design problem of sandbox domain. Check out http://homakov.github.io/guc.html

    Comment linking /guc.html

    on “Googleusercontent.com fun”
  7. CSRF http://homakov.github.io/#{"url":"https://anonyfish.com/api/... also why not it snap-chat style and remove messages after 10 s?

    Comment linking /

    on “Anonyfish – Chat Anonymously With Another Secret User”
  8. BTW, clickjacking was fixed few weeks ago and http://homakov.github.io/nocaptcha.html isn't working anymore.

    Comment linking /nocaptcha.html

    on “Sorry Google, No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA Doesn’t Stop Bots”

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