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Nick Nikiforakis
Personal blog · blog.securitee.orgsecurity
Nick Nikiforakis's personal blog at blog.securitee.org covers security. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Detecting Ghostery”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for browser fingerprinting and privacy research, including work on extension-based fingerprinting. The one comment cites a post as a source for its point about Chrome extension enumeration.
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?
- Detecting Ghostery2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-10
What Hacker News says?
General-purpose Chrome extension enumeration[1] should have been fixed some time ago, maybe here: http://crbug.com/45876 There are still issues with fingerprinting based on specific attributes of a particular extension (for example: [2]), however. 1: http://www.skeletonscribe.net/2011/07/sparse-bruteforce-addo... 2: http://blog.securitee.org/?p=277
Comment linking /?p=277
on “Chameleon: browser fingerprinting protection for everybody”Submitted Detecting Ghostery as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted ShapeShifter: The emperor’s new web security technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on recent AI-class hangout: "If he was good enough..." as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Large-scale evaluation of Remote JavaScript inclusions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion