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Joe Wein
Personal blog · joewein.net/blogsecurityweb
Joe Wein's personal blog at joewein.net covers security and web. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Princeton GDRP and CCPA Privacy Study Data Collection Issues”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Joe Wein's blog covers GDPR and CCPA data-request questions and keeps a domain blacklist log. HN commenters link his posts as sources on the CCPA/GDPR email study and on spam-listing disputes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Princeton GDRP and CCPA Privacy Study Data Collection Issues3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-18
What Hacker News says?
They've been doing this since April 202 [1]. Early reports also found on reddit with people being concerned. We too received quite a few of these emails over the last few days from various fake idenities and wasted time responding to one of them before realising it was not legit! I can't imagine how much time and potentially money was wasted on these mass emails. [1] https://joewein.net/blog/2021/04/21/questions-abo…
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/21/questions-about-gdpr-data-access-process-spam-from-virginia/
on “CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University”Submitted Princeton GDRP and CCPA Privacy Study Data Collection Issues as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://joewein.net/blog/2021/04/21/questions-about-gdpr-dat...
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/21/questions-about-gdpr-data-access-process-spam-from-virginia/
on “Princeton researcher apologizes for GDPR/CCPA email study”Running this from any web host will almost certainly get your server turned off along with a pile of abuse emails. To make it run even faster you should scrub all the Bogon routes on this list: https://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/http.html I would also scrub all the sinkholes and captured botnet C&C ip addresses as hitting those will lower the reputation your netblock. List we use at meanpath is: http://mirro…
Comment linking /dl/bl/dom-bl-base.txt
on “ZMap: Internet scanner maps all of IPv4 in 45 minutes”I reported them as well, but like your report, it doesn't seem to have been acted on. See my blog post at: http://www.joewein.net/blog/2010/07/01/codeweblog-com-a-pile...
Comment linking /blog/2010/07/01/codeweblog-com-a-pile-of-garbage-indexed-by-google/
on “Our new search index: Caffeine”It says it's listed on a blacklist of domains involved in spam. But it's not clear if all the folks pointing at the one blacklist are examples of it being relisted multiple times or just people rereporting that it's on that list. It's not listed in the last 30 days of additions at http://www.joewein.net/bl-log/bl-log.htm so I'd suspect that 2013-02-07 'event' listed on WOT is meaningless. Considering the time of its…
Comment linking /bl-log/bl-log.htm
on “Interactive Vim Tutorial”