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Mark Alan Richards

Personal blog · markalanrichards.comsecuritypolitics

Mark Alan Richards's personal blog at markalanrichards.com covers security and politics. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2019

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Why HN links it

Posts about checking whether significant UK websites use subresource integrity for JavaScript and how to test for CSP and other data-protection risks, linked from a Show HN project.

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Posts by Mark Alan Richards.

What Hacker News says?

  1. For a little more detail about this: https://markalanrichards.com/posts/2023-09-10-data-access-te... I wanted to explore the extent to which some significant UK websites include SRI of JavaScript assets. Put together on a Sunday, needs work, curious about how best to check for CSP and whether I've missed other risks beyond just JavaScript not protected by SRI.

    Comment linking /posts/2023-09-10-data-access-tests/

    on “Show HN: Data Protection Access Tests”
  2. Submitted A Delivery Chain Breach: A UK bank opened the back door to China as a story · 59 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Firefox: Leave My DNS Alone as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Ad tracking of kids using Childline. Facebook removed. YouTube not yet as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted British privacy regulator breaches privacy as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Who doesn't have remote access to your bank account? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted NHS's Covid-19 website includes advertiser tracking as a story · 1 points

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