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Ian McKay

Personal blog · onecloudplease.com/blogsystemssecurity

Ian McKay writes One Cloud Please, a personal blog at onecloudplease.com about systems and security. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Cedar: A New Policy Language”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-13, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2020

The ramblings of Ian Mckay, a DevOps dude from Australia

Most-linked posts?

  1. Cedar: A New Policy Language
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-11
  2. S3 Bucket Namesquatting: Abusing Predictable S3 Bucket Names
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-31
  3. Security September: Still Early Days for ABAC
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. boyter · 2020-09-22

    Submitted Security September: Cataclysms in the Cloud Formations as a story · 16 points

    HN discussion
  2. boyter · 2026-03-13

    Submitted Bucketsquatting Is (Finally) Dead as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. wgx · 2019-08-01

    Submitted S3 Bucket Namesquatting: Abusing Predictable S3 Bucket Names as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. boyter · 2021-10-07

    Submitted S3 Bucket Namesquatting – Abusing predictable S3 bucket names as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. boyter · 2020-09-29

    Submitted Security September: Still Early Days for ABAC as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. boyter · 2020-09-08

    Submitted Security September: Escaping CodeBuild – The compromise that wasn't as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. boyter · 2020-09-01

    Submitted Security September: Fun with Fn:Cidr as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. rbanffy · 2023-04-16

    Submitted Exploring Amazon VPC Lattice – One Cloud Please as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. mooreds · 2023-03-21

    Submitted Cedar: A New Policy Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. cjg · 2023-01-20

    Submitted Cedar: A New Policy Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. sylens · 2023-01-11

    Submitted Cedar: A New Policy Language as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. boyter · 2022-01-11

    Submitted Patching the AWS JavaScript SDK for Service Workers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. boyter · 2021-10-04

    Submitted Migrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. kiyanwang · 2020-10-04

    Submitted Security September: Still Early Days for ABAC as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. boyter · 2020-09-16

    Submitted Security September: Racing Against CloudWatch Synthetics Canaries as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. boyter · 2019-07-31

    Submitted S3 Bucket Namesquatting – Abusing Predictable S3 Bucket Names as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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