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Magnus Hagander
Personal blog · blog.hagander.netprogrammingdata
Magnus Hagander's personal blog at blog.hagander.net covers programming and data. Since 2008, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. 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 readers link Magnus Hagander's posts on PostgreSQL security and the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug. Comments cite them as background on how much risk the database itself poses.
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 question is what is the risk that PostgreSQL has an authentication bypass vulnerability. Well there was the whole OpenSSL Heartbleed issue that would only be an issue if the DB is network accessible: https://blog.hagander.net/postgresql-and-the-openssl-heartbl... > Compared to the risk that your web app developers got authentication and authorization at the web app layer wrong, this is very unlikely. And given…
Comment linking /postgresql-and-the-openssl-heartbleed-vulnerability-219/
on “Website Database Security (2018)”Submitted About security updates and repository "lockdown" as a story · 48 points
HN discussionDebian and Ubuntu default SSL on. More details here http://blog.hagander.net/archives/219-PostgreSQL-and-the-Ope...
Comment linking /archives/219-PostgreSQL-and-the-OpenSSL-Heartbleed-vulnerability.html
on “Ask HN: Heartbleed and postgresql”Submitted MySQL and PostgreSQL release quality as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted JSON field constraints with Postgres as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted When a vulnerability is not a vulnerability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL: Setting Owner at CREATE TABLE as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted About security updates and repository "lockdown" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A surprising lesson in the speed of languages as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting random rows much faster with tablesample in PostgreSQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android Mailing-List Moderator as a story · 1 points
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