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Michał Woźniak
Personal blog · rys.io/ensecuritypoliticsculture
Michał Woźniak writes <span>Songs</span> on the Security of Networks, a personal blog at rys.io about security, politics and culture. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite rys.io for its COVID case-tracking charts and its essays on encryption, surveillance and tech hype, usually as sources supporting their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
a blog by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Most-linked posts?
- Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
- The hype is the product2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-28
- Effective CSAM filters are impossible because what CSAM is depends on context2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-09
- The Outrage Dividend2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-29
What Hacker News says?
EU cases started climbing earlier than the US, and new daily cases have peaked and are descending. Plotted here, 1 September to present, are the largest EU states: France, Spain, UK, Germany, and Italy, vs. US. (The tool is capped at five comparisons). Shown are new daily cases, normed to population, 14 day smoothing (to clarify trend). https://rys.io/covid/#delta,linear,permillion,date,average:1... Substitute othee…
Comment linking /covid/
on “Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show”Submitted The hype is the product as a story · 213 points
HN discussionMonetization and abuse has been mentioned a bunch as things to consider as you gain more users, but I'll add a couple more I think are relevant, at least once the service is big enough. Your payment processor. Payment processors might get triggered by the fact that adult content is pretty much explicitly allowed. They might also just generally deem you "high risk" and kick you out. I think this is one of the biggest…
Comment linking /en/173.html
on “Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur”Submitted Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot as a story · 70 points
HN discussionLog-log of daily growth vs total cases is a neat graphics hack, one I'd not seen before, let alone thought of. FT have been headlining a semi-log plot of deaths per country, normalised to days after the first ten deaths were reported. https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest Because dead bodies tend to behave characteristically, are inconvenient both directly and via surviving relations, and present a smaller testing t…
Comment linking /covid/
on “Log-log plot of new vs. total Covid-19 cases by country”Submitted Effective CSAM filters are impossible because what CSAM is depends on context as a story · 29 points
HN discussionDo what people did when ACTA was about to be signed - protest on the streets. A few tousand people on the streets of most big cities in a country speak to politicians louder than online petition signed by 1 000 000 people. Polish politicians have learnt their lesson last year and now they know to not even try: http://rys.io/en/109
Comment linking /en/109
on “Sleepwalking into censorship”Submitted Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe ban is not about encryption: http://rys.io/en/149 Of course they can't expect to effectively police the ban if it's put into law. But they don't have to. Everybody will encrypt anyway and that's fine, because once they want somebody put away, they will be able to simply by saying "that person broke the Snooper's Charter by using SSH". It's not about banning encryption, it's about having a convenient law to put t…
Comment linking /en/149
on “If David Cameron bans secure encryption he can't intercept”Submitted The Outrage Dividend as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of a similar article that might have been posted on here about tech now focusing on hype as the product. https://rys.io/en/180.html#hype-is-the-product > In fact, increasingly, hype is the only thing that counts, as larger and larger chunk of investment money is chasing it – to the detriment of everything else that happens not to bolt the hyped tech onto its unrelated but otherwise solid product or s…
Comment linking /en/180.html
on “Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating”Submitted Neat HaCSS, or let's de-JS the Web a bit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA more complete set of COVID-19 informational resources†: COVID-19 trends by region, country, state/province, U.S. metropolitan area, or U.S. county: https://outbreak.info COVID-19 projections: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections Financial Times Covid-19 tracker: https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/ CovidTrends; New cases (weekly average) vs. total cases, by country: https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/ Worldomet…
Comment linking /covid/
on “The Scourge of Hygiene Theater”Submitted The Hype Is the Product as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've been tracking the "millionaires' club" --- countries with at least 1 million confirmed cases. Mexico had been lining up to be the next member, in about 8 days, first noted 2 weeks ago. Italy is now rocketing past Mexico, and will pass 1m cases in 3 days. That caught me by surprise. https://rys.io/covid/#linear;italy,mexico https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ https://www.worldometers.info/co…
Comment linking /covid/
on “The second wave of Covid-19 has sent much of Europe back into lockdown”Submitted The Outrage Dividend as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, let's see * Not end-to-end encrypted by default * No end-to-end encrypted groups * No end-to-end encryption on any desktop client by the vendor, forcing cross-platform users to drop secret chats. This includes 81% of working age people who sit on their computer during work day, and 100% of college students and IT workers. * No post-quantum key exchange * No future secrecy * No per-message forward secrecy * Bull…
Comment linking /en/179.html
on “Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers”Submitted AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted BlueSky Is Cosplaying Decentralization as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mastodon Monoculture Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with SEO Link Spam Emails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HOWTO: effectively argue against Internet censorship ideas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Breaking the garden walls as a story · 1 points
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