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Jane Manchun Wong
Personal blog · wongmjane.com/blogsecurityprogramming
Jane Manchun Wong's personal blog at wongmjane.com covers security and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-13, 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 Jane Manchun Wong's site for her write-ups of app features uncovered by reverse engineering before launch, along with disclosures of the methods behind those leaks.
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.
Jane Manchun Wong is a software engineer and security researcher known for uncovering unreleased features in social and consumer apps.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-28
What Hacker News says?
Big fan of Jane's overall approach. Since the profile focuses on the leaks themselves, here's something the HN crowd might find especially cool - disclosures for the reverse engineering methods behind many of the leaks: https://wongmjane.com/ Jane, since you're on: I'm curious how you feel about the red-team/blue-team dynamics of what you're doing. If companies get better at hiding tests and under-development featur…
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on “Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch”Submitted Facebook may be gathering residential WiFi networks as a story · 44 points
HN discussionhttps://wongmjane.com/ lists Wong's writeups of apps features, uncovered by reverse engineering.
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on “Jane Manchun Wong: The Woman Scooping Silicon Valley”Submitted Shopping Turned into Breaking in Store's Network: SSRF via GraphQL Query as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instagram “Clips” clones TikTok’s video editor in prototype as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Waymo Is Working on a Gemini AI Assistant. Here's the System Prompt as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medium tests to save webpages from the internet as a story · 1 points
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