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Jerry Gamblin

Personal blog · jerrygamblin.comsecuritydata

Jerry Gamblin writes JerryGamblin.com, a personal blog at jerrygamblin.com about security and data. Since 2014, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Please scan my towel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.

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33mentions?
21HN people?
2014–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2016

Curiosity in Practice

Most-linked posts?

  1. Please scan my towel
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. thelittleone · 2017-02-16
    Here is a nice tutorial for getting the excellent Streisand privacy server up and running on Digital Ocean. http://jerrygamblin.com/2016/07/10/the-vpn-you-should-be-usi...

    Comment linking /2016/07/10/the-vpn-you-should-be-using/

    on “StrongSwan – IPsec VPN for Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows”
  2. jgrahamc · 2016-03-11

    Submitted Please scan my towel as a story · 407 points

    HN discussion
  3. hyperpape · 2018-10-30

    Submitted Google Home (in)Security as a story · 310 points

    HN discussion
  4. CapacitorSet · 2021-01-02

    Submitted CVE Stuffing as a story · 290 points

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  5. algui91 · 2018-12-30

    Submitted Favorite Security Books of 2018 as a story · 13 points

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  6. mpalme · 2016-03-03

    Submitted Please scan my towel as a story · 7 points

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  7. ah- · 2016-03-01

    Submitted Please Scan My Towel as a story · 7 points

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  8. adamnemecek · 2016-07-15

    Submitted My First 10 Seconds on a Server as a story · 5 points

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  9. wolframio · 2016-03-02

    Submitted Please Scan My Towel: How I turned my hotel towel into my RSA conference badge as a story · 5 points

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  10. jessaustin · 2017-01-03

    Submitted Grizzly Steppe IP and Hash Analysis as a story · 3 points

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  11. okket · 2016-08-31

    Submitted RaiNmap Container as a story · 3 points

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  12. jessaustin · 2014-05-14

    Submitted Text Bombed as a story · 3 points

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  13. campuscodi · 2024-01-07

    Submitted 2023 CVE Data Review as a story · 2 points

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  14. ddtaylor · 2021-03-12

    Submitted Please scan my towel (2016) as a story · 2 points

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  15. jermaustin1 · 2019-07-19

    Submitted Ubuntu and Mate and Xrdp on Digital Ocean – Jerrygamblin.com as a story · 2 points

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  16. jessaustin · 2016-11-08

    Submitted Continuous Network Monitoring as a story · 2 points

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  17. kiyanwang · 2016-06-06

    Submitted A Docker Container to Capture All Traffic from Host as a story · 2 points

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  18. amk_ · 2016-05-29

    Submitted Hijacking a Sonifi Hotel TV as a story · 2 points

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  19. jessaustin · 2016-03-30

    Submitted Finding Weev-Able Printers as a story · 2 points

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  20. jessaustin · 2014-07-25

    Submitted Please Turn On Two Factor Authentication as a story · 2 points

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  21. ilreb · 2026-10-04

    Submitted Local models on 27,489 CVEs: 4.2% omit security impact (ex-kernel) as a story · 1 points

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  22. asicsp · 2021-04-07

    Submitted Exploited in the Wild? What Does That Even Mean? as a story · 1 points

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  23. rbanffy · 2019-08-30

    Submitted What to Inspect When You Are Inspecting – Jerrygamblin.com as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. jessaustin · 2017-03-08

    Submitted Easily Check Certificate Transparency Log as a story · 1 points

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  25. franzpeterstein · 2016-06-21

    Submitted Emoji’s in Domain and Hostnames as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. hacker2 · 2016-06-09

    Submitted What to Inspect When You Are Inspecting (a Docker Container) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. hacker2 · 2016-06-01

    Submitted You can now run kali linux in a web browser with this docker container as a story · 1 points

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  28. jessaustin · 2016-01-26

    Submitted Crash Safari Code as a story · 1 points

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  29. jessaustin · 2015-12-14

    Submitted Thoughts on TrueCrypt as a story · 1 points

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  30. jessaustin · 2015-06-10

    Submitted Writing Risk Statements as a story · 1 points

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