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minus' blog
Personal blog · blog.mnus.desystemssecurity
minus' blog is a personal blog at blog.mnus.de about systems and security. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is a question about whether an application needs encrypted syscalls or just an encrypted target directory. It does not judge the blog's writing, so the posts' subject is unclear from the comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-24
What Hacker News says?
I assume that in this scenario we don’t want to change the behaviour (program code, source code) of the application itself. Why is it important that the syscalls (write et al) encrypts? (Even if they do so only under the hood.) Is it not sufficient that the application writes to a place that is encrypted? It’s probably not impossible to modify the syscalls, but I think it would be vastly easier to let the outside sy…
Comment linking /2020/05/sandboxing-soldatserver-with-bubblewrap-and-seccomp/
on “Ask HN: Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?”Submitted When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted These aren't the packets I asked for as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Sshign as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VPN-in-a-box – mnus as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
