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n00py Blog
Personal blog · n00py.iosecurity
n00py Blog is a personal blog at n00py.io about security. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Compromising Synergy clients with a rogue Synergy server”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Security research posts on attacking tools: compromising Synergy clients to reach work laptops, and bypassing Duo two-factor authentication. Commenters cite them as support for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Compromising Synergy clients with a rogue Synergy server2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-05
What Hacker News says?
Software sharing solutions create a lot of attack surface and mean giving a personal laptop full control of a work laptop or vice versa. This pretty much violates every security team policy at every company. I can only recommend such solutions between things like test automation or QA machines that have no security impact if compromised. https://www.n00py.io/2017/03/compromising-synergy-clients-wi...
Comment linking /2017/03/compromising-synergy-clients-with-a-rogue-synergy-server/
on “ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware”Submitted Control your Mac with an iPhone app – An analysis of HippoRemote as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBetter to just say zero trust, identity driven/MFA approach... Duo is not zero trust, worse, its fail open by default - https://www.n00py.io/2018/08/bypassing-duo-two-factor-authen...
Comment linking /2018/08/bypassing-duo-two-factor-authentication-fail-open/
on “Banking security in Indian banks is a joke”Submitted Privilege escalation on OS X – without exploits (2016) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Compromising Synergy clients with a rogue Synergy server as a story · 1 points
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