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Joris La Cance
Personal blog · jorislacance.fr/blog · on HN as jorislacancesecurityprogramming
Joris La Cance's personal blog at jorislacance.fr covers security and programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a bare link to a 2021 post on WhatsApp tracking, presented as a bigger concern than unencrypted backups. The post covers WhatsApp tracking.
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.
Portfolio of Joris La Cancellera. Hacker on various things.
Most-linked posts?
- Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Unencrypted backups are bad, but this is arguably even worse: https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2 (Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889139 )
Comment linking /blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2
on ““People have asked if we'll adopt this system for WhatsApp. The answer is no.””Submitted Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones as a story · 222 points
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