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Little Man In My Head

Personal blog · littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.comsecurityprogramming

Little Man In My Head is a personal blog at littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com about security and programming. Since 2015, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Top Developer Crypto Mistakes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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33mentions?
28HN people?
2015–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2017

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Top Developer Crypto Mistakes
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-04-24
  2. Learning to break ciphers
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-10-18
  3. How I Became a Cryptographer
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-19
  4. UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-11-26
  5. Fighting Bots with the Client-Puzzle Protocol
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-23
  6. No, Java Is Not a Secure Programming Language
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-28
  7. Why I Left Cryptography
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-26
  8. If you copied these popular StackOverflow code snippets, then you coded it wrong
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. ciupicri · 2019-05-25
    From https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2015/11/22/cautionar... > Do not assume that UUIDs are hard to guess; they should not be used as security capabilities (identifiers whose mere possession grants access), for example. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631806

    Comment linking /2015/11/22/cautionary-note-uuids-should-generally-not-be-used-for-authentication-tokens/

    on “First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Insurance Records”
  2. noch · 2021-02-12

    Submitted So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers as a story · 180 points

    HN discussion
  3. zxcmx · 2017-11-03
    This is the author: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=9gs9StcAAAAJ&hl... Not a shill. Source: worked with him. This post of his is an interesting read and might give a bit more background to the what you saw: https://littlemaninmyhead.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/why-i-lef...

    Comment linking /2017/10/23/why-i-left-cryptography/

    on “A Review of PentesterLab”
  4. libeclipse · 2017-05-19

    Submitted Learning to break ciphers as a story · 180 points

    HN discussion
  5. perch56 · 2019-08-07

    Submitted Don’t underestimate grep-based code scanning as a story · 166 points

    HN discussion
  6. xnyhps · 2015-11-26

    Submitted UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements as a story · 130 points

    HN discussion
  7. rurban · 2025-08-31

    Submitted Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  8. svenfaw · 2020-06-15

    Submitted Understanding Certificate Pinning as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  9. pentestercrab · 2017-11-02

    Submitted A Review of PentesterLab as a story · 41 points

    HN discussion
  10. gebt · 2020-09-23

    Submitted Fighting Bots with the Client-Puzzle Protocol as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. gillytech · 2021-08-11

    Submitted Cautionary note: UUIDs generally do not meet security requirements as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  12. svenfaw · 2017-04-24

    Submitted Top Developer Crypto Mistakes as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. artkulak · 2021-09-16

    Submitted If you copied these popular StackOverflow code snippets, then you coded it wrong as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. r4um · 2017-04-30

    Submitted Top Developer Crypto Mistakes as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. wtbob · 2017-04-25

    Submitted Top ten developer crypto mistakes as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. libeclipse · 2017-05-19

    Submitted How I Became a Cryptographer as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. luu · 2024-04-24

    Submitted So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. KomoD · 2024-03-17

    Submitted Fighting bots with the client-puzzle protocol (2020) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. coadytech · 2023-10-01

    Submitted How I avoided management for 25 years as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. jonnybgood · 2022-01-04

    Submitted How I Became a Cryptographer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. charlysl · 2021-03-06

    Submitted No, Java Is Not a Secure Programming Language as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. zeveb · 2019-02-01

    Submitted Protecting user accounts when usability matters as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. eaguyhn · 2018-03-02

    Submitted Secure Coding: Understanding Input Validation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. eaguyhn · 2018-02-20

    Submitted Secure Coding: Understanding Input Validation as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. eaguyhn · 2017-10-26

    Submitted Why I Left Cryptography as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. hamstah · 2017-04-26

    Submitted Developer crypto mistakes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. adamnemecek · 2017-04-25

    Submitted Top Developer Crypto Mistakes as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. aburan28 · 2015-10-18

    Submitted So, You Want to Learn to Break Ciphers as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. fanf2 · 2024-08-13

    Submitted So you want to learn to break ciphers? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. rdpintqogeogsaa · 2021-09-15

    Submitted Popular StackOverflow encryption code snippets coded it wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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