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Mustafa Al-Bassam

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Mustafa Al-Bassam's personal blog at musalbas.com covers security and politics. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “NSA's BENIGNCERTAIN: remote exploit to extract Cisco VPN private keys”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2015–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2016

Most-linked posts?

  1. NSA's BENIGNCERTAIN: remote exploit to extract Cisco VPN private keys
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted NSA's BENIGNCERTAIN: remote exploit to extract Cisco VPN private keys as a story · 4 points

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  2. Submitted Leaked Equation Group Exploit Codenames as a story · 4 points

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  3. Submitted EQGRP – BENIGNCERTAIN a remote exploit to extract Cisco VPN private keys as a story · 2 points

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  4. Submitted Security Advisory – E-Detective Lawful Interception System as a story · 1 points

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