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Linus Neumann
Personal blog · linus-neumann.desecuritypolitics
Linus Neumann's personal blog at linus-neumann.de covers security and politics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Linus Neumann's 2013 post on the "Trolldrossel" (troll throttle), a German-language piece about a playful technical way to reduce spam and troll comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Vorträge, Podcasts und Beiträge zu IT-Sicherheit, Netzpolitik und Psychologie
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/05/die-trolldrossel-erkenntnisse-der-empirischen-trollforschung/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-14
What Hacker News says?
Nice solution! This always reminds me of the "Trolldrossel" (troll throttle), which was/is a funny piece of science and technics to reduce spam and troll comments. It's in German, but maybe auto subtitles and DeepL can make you understand it: https://linus-neumann.de/2013/05/die-trolldrossel-erkenntnis...
Comment linking /2013/05/die-trolldrossel-erkenntnisse-der-empirischen-trollforschung/
on “I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit”I don't speak this language but I assume this is it. https://linus-neumann.de/2013/05/die-trolldrossel-erkenntnis...
Comment linking /2013/05/die-trolldrossel-erkenntnisse-der-empirischen-trollforschung/
on “You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation”Well, at least this one study seems to conclude that surveillance can in fact help: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/scie... I seem to have heard that there were other studies concluding similar things, but can't find another one right now. Even privacy advocates have argued that apps can, if developed well, be useful if developed with privacy in mind. See the link by the CCC or this post by L…
Comment linking /2020/03/corona-apps-sinn-und-unsinn-von-tracking/
on “Digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights”