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Niels Provos
Personal blog · provos.org · on HN as nielsprovossecurityai
Niels Provos's personal blog at provos.org covers security and ai. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “IronCurtain: A Personal AI Assistant Built Secure from the Ground”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by one commenter alongside a discussion of steganography, pointing to Niels Provos's posts on image steganography with OutGuess and detection with Stegdetect.
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Bladesmithing & Internet Security & Music
Most-linked posts?
- IronCurtain: A Personal AI Assistant Built Secure from the Ground3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-26
- Finding Zero-Days with Any Model2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-30
What Hacker News says?
A higher level of abstraction generative AI will soon be able to apply is in the design of algorithms that humans cannot possibly comprehend that go well beyond rudimentary newspaper want ad spycraft. Also, image based steg: https://www.provos.org/p/outguess/ https://www.provos.org/p/detection-with-stegdetect/
Comment linking /p/detection-with-stegdetect/
on “Perfectly Secure Steganography Using Minimum Entropy Coupling”Submitted The Case for Open-Weight Models and Why We Can't Trust Frontier Labs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Zero-Days with Any Model as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Research Without Asking Permission as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cybersecurity Defenders Need Open-Weight Models as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Had to Write a Script to Submit My Medical Claims to Cigna as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 'AI' ethics limit artistic exploration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of a PDF Exploit as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Zero Days with any model? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IronCurtain: A Personal AI Assistant Built Secure from the Ground as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted IronCurtain: A Personal AI Assistant Built Secure from the Ground Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I built a personal AI assistant with security as a first-class citizen as a story · 1 points
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