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John Scott Railton
Personal blog · johnscottrailton.comsecuritypolitics
John Scott Railton's personal blog at johnscottrailton.com covers security and politics. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Security for the High-Risk User”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link John Scott Railton's posts on the NSO Group FORCEDENTRY iMessage exploit and on Starlink transmissions becoming targets in war. The comments cite his research and do not judge the writing.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Security for the High-Risk User2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-05
What Hacker News says?
From the top of the article: > We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) group for collaborating with us on the technical analysis. This reminded me that NSO went after Citizen Lab on multiple fronts. They even tried to use a spy to talk to JSR ( https://www.johnscottrailton.com ) and make him say controversial thing…
Comment linking /
on “A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution”Submitted Security for the High-Risk User as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe author is a senior researcher at CitizenLab and is the author of this[1] case study for USNWC titled " Revolutionary Risks: Cyber Technology and Threats in the 2011 Libyan Revolution ". They also posted plenty of evidence of radio transmissions being targeted in war. He also has tomes of interesting research published in this field[2]. [1] https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refere... [2] https…
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on “Starlink transmissions become beacons for airstrikes”Submitted Spam and Fake News Appearing in Google News as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fit leaking: When a FitBit blow your cover as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security for the High-Risk User: Separate and Unequal as a story · 2 points
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