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Jacob Torrey
Personal blog · blog.jacobtorrey.comsecurityprogramming
Jacob Torrey's personal blog at blog.jacobtorrey.com covers security and programming. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “LangSec: Taming the Weird Machines”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its discussion of LangSec, the language-theoretic approach to security and 'weird machines'. One commenter cites it when arguing for rebuilding computing software stacks with security in mind.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The blog of Jacob Torrey
Most-linked posts?
- LangSec: Taming the Weird Machines3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-15
What Hacker News says?
Maybe it's time to re-engineer our whole computing software stack from the ground up with rigorous security in mind, like the LangSec folks suggest. http://blog.jacobtorrey.com/langsec-taming-the-weird-machine...
Comment linking /langsec-taming-the-weird-machines
on “Apple Mac computers targeted by ransomware and spyware”Submitted Mitigations to the “Memory Sinkhole” as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted LangSec: Taming the Weird Machines as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Depressing Effect of Bug Bounties as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted HARES – make software *nearly* impossible to hack as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted LANGSEC: Taming the Weird Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the Relative Unimportance of InfoSec as a story · 1 points
HN discussion