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Nathaniel McCallum
Personal blog · npmccallum.gitlab.io/postsecurityprogramming
Nathaniel McCallum's personal blog at npmccallum.gitlab.io covers security and programming. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Our Bootloader Problem– How Secure Boot Is Reshaping OS Loaders”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers cross-architecture Linux roots using binfmt_misc and qemu. The one commenter links it as a how-to for running and testing other-architecture binaries, not as praise.
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.
Security ‧ Identity ‧ Cryptography
Most-linked posts?
- Our Bootloader Problem– How Secure Boot Is Reshaping OS Loaders2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-22
What Hacker News says?
binfmt_misc is awesome. Little known fact: on most distros, you can combine the power of binfmt and qemu to run binaries from another architecture: either in a chroot/container or directly in debian: https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation https://npmccallum.gitlab.io/post/cross-architecture-roots-w... This allows you to test your rasberry pi images/binaries directly on your x86 machine (and vice-versa), for examp…
Comment linking /post/cross-architecture-roots-with-dnf/
on “The real power of Linux executables”Submitted Do not use ring or rustls as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Bootloader Problem– How Secure Boot Is Reshaping OS Loaders as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Container Bootloader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Bootloader Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussion