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Olivia Gallucci
Personal blog · oliviagallucci.comsecurityprogramming
Olivia Gallucci writes Olivia A. Gallucci, a personal blog at oliviagallucci.com about security and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Anatomy of a Mach-O”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment links here, citing a post on using return-oriented programming (ROP) to bypass security mitigations such as ASLR. The commenter uses it to support the point that ASLR is a soft mitigation.
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.
Olivia Gallucci is a security engineer and speaker specializing in Apple security, reverse engineering, and low-level macOS internals research.
Most-linked posts?
- The Anatomy of a Mach-O2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-02
What Hacker News says?
> So ASLR is not a security control ASLR is a mitigation [0] & defense in depth against memory exploits. I mean, if we are going to be this pedantic, then keeping keys secret is also "obscurity". [0] A "soft" mitigation at that: https://oliviagallucci.com/how-to-use-rop-to-bypass-security...
Comment linking /how-to-use-rop-to-bypass-security-mechanisms/
on “Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad”Submitted The Anatomy of a Mach-O as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boot ROM Security on Silicon Macs (M1/M2/M3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Anatomy of a Mach-O: Structure, Code Signing, and Pac as a story · 1 points
HN discussion