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Jump ESP, jump!
Personal blog · jumpespjump.blogspot.comsecurity
Jump ESP, jump! is a personal blog at jumpespjump.blogspot.com about security. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on hacking old Windows, such as a Windows 95 password-length exploit. One commenter cites that post as support for a point about one-letter password guessing.
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.
What Hacker News says?
The one letter password guessing had some credibility long time ago thanks to unvalidated password length fields: https://jumpespjump.blogspot.com/2014/02/hacking-windows-95-... But nowadays i doubt you often encounter that kind of bugs and the speed would probably be unappealing to audience.
Comment linking /2014/02/hacking-windows-95-part-1.html
on “Movies Get Chess Wrong”Submitted How I hacked my IP camera, and found this backdoor account as a story · 201 points
HN discussionThe problem with old OSes not receiving security updates is that they will be vulnerable to new security vulnerabilities. Having a smaller attack surface (like older OSes did) is important for security. But ultimately, older, unpatched OSes are trivial to hack, even using an off-the-shelf toolkit like metasploit; attack surface size be damned. Also, a reason why there are fewer CVEs for older OSes is that we've gott…
Comment linking /2014/05/hacking-windows-95-part-2.html
on “Mozilla ending support for Windows 7”Submitted Many ways of malware persistence as a story · 22 points
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