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Meme Over
Personal blog · memeover.arkem.orgsecurityprogramming
Meme Over is a personal blog at memeover.arkem.org about security and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Twitter as a Vector for Disinformation (2009)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters point to the author's older posts on Twitter as a vector for disinformation, propaganda in Eve Online, and NAT and IPv6 security, as background to their own points.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter as a Vector for Disinformation (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-13
What Hacker News says?
In a somewhat similar vein in 2009 I wrote about how useful Twitter is for spreading disinformation. Some of the points I made were somewhat mitigated by Twitter product changes but I still think it holds up as an article/paper. http://memeover.arkem.org/2009/12/twitter-as-vector-for-disi...
Comment linking /2009/12/twitter-as-vector-for-disinformation.html
on “She Warned of ‘Peer-To-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened”Submitted Twitter as a Vector for Disinformation (2009) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote a short paper about propaganda and spy antics in Eve Online in 2009: http://memeover.arkem.org/2009/12/information-operations-in-... Though if you're after Eve Online war stories I'd instead recommend the books and podcast Empires of Eve (not by me): https://www.empiresofeve.com/
Comment linking /2009/12/information-operations-in-and-around.html
on “Misinformation and Disinformation in Online Games”Submitted Py360: a library for reading Xbox 360 file formats as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor the billionth time, NAT does not provide any security as it only does address conversion. The other fields in the IP and TCP headers (such as the connect(2) side's port number, the TCP timestamp[1], badly implemented initial sequence numbers[2], and anything else that is useful for OS fingerprinting) can be used to distinguish between users[3] that share a single NATed IP address. As you say, HTTP cookies and ot…
Comment linking /2012/02/identifying-computers-behind-nat-with.html
on “IPv6: It's time to get on board”Submitted Authenticode (code signing) and Antivirus Detection as a story · 1 points
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