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Maikel.pro Blog
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Maikel.pro Blog is a personal blog at maikel.pro about security and politics. Since 2015, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “WhatsApp privacy options are illusions”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-17, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as related reading on TLS certificate revocation and WhatsApp privacy options, with one commenter noting they built a similar WhatsApp tracking tool in 2015. The comments don't judge the writing itself.
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.
information security & privacy
Most-linked posts?
- WhatsApp privacy options are illusions3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-02-09
- /blog/current-state-certificate-revocation-crls-ocsp/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-11
What Hacker News says?
Relevant: https://www.maikel.pro/blog/current-state-certificate-revoca...
Comment linking /blog/current-state-certificate-revocation-crls-ocsp/
on “Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything”Submitted Progress in censorship circumvention: overview of Tor and Pluggable transports as a story · 9 points
HN discussionDid something similar in 2015, there was even an open-source program to do it with graphical statistics: https://maikel.pro/blog/en-whatsapp-privacy-options-are-illu...
Comment linking /blog/en-whatsapp-privacy-options-are-illusions/
on “Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones”Submitted How WhatsApp messages and contacts can be intercepted by Intelligence Services as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> How do kiosk machines now work? How can I trust any website when every use is first use? Should you ever really trust kiosk machines? They could easily be setup with MITM eavesdropping software. > What about https domains for images and scripts? Is the user supposed to trust each domain separately? Presumably there could be some sort of <meta> header that listed the public key fingerprint/IDs of any subdomains tha…
Comment linking /blog/current-state-certificate-revocation-crls-ocsp/
on “Fix TLS – Let’s Get Rid of Certificates”Submitted The current state of certificate revocation (CRLs, OCSP and OCSP Stapling)(2016) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted WhatsApp privacy options are illusions as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progress in censorship circumvention: overview of Tor and Pluggable transports as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted From S3 Bucket to entire login infrastructure compromise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Team Fortress 2 game-servers to circumvent censorship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted NIS2 and Software Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted WhatsApp Privacy Is Broken – WhatsSpy Public as a story · 1 points
HN discussion