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ParanoidPenguin.net
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ParanoidPenguin.net is a personal blog at blog.paranoidpenguin.net about security. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (2015)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on privacy, password managers, self-hosted email, analytics and spam domains. Commenters cite them as examples or sources on those topics, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Just a patron on a ship of fools
Most-linked posts?
- Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-02-21
- Self-hosting email in 2020: Joe Nobody vs. World2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-11
- Plausible and Fathom analytics are not GDPR compliant2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-20
What Hacker News says?
This particular paragraph is strangely under-informed in an otherwise-good article. """ Many people in the free software movement find censorship in general to be abhorrent. (That’s one very good reason, for example, why emails you receive that might be spam go into a special folder, instead of being silently deleted without you having a option to choose to see them if you wish. Your email server could just delete t…
Comment linking /2015/01/outlook-com-is-silently-discarding-email-messages/
on “Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects”Submitted Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (2015) as a story · 155 points
HN discussionYou may be thinking of Rovio https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2024/05/raivo-otp-breaks-us...
Comment linking /2024/05/raivo-otp-breaks-users-one-time-passwords/
on “Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA”Submitted Plausible Analytics Isn't GDPR Compliant as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSomething that I believe should be added to this thread would be utilities that can take the LastPass export and transform it into structures that other pw managers can easily recognize and import. Here [1] is an example of migrating passwords from LastPass to KeePassXC. Does anyone have more examples like this for other pw managers? [1] - https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2018/12/migrating-from-last...
Comment linking /2018/12/migrating-from-lastpass-to-keepassxc/
on “LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage”Submitted Year one of hosting Tor exit relays as a story · 6 points
HN discussionInterestingly, https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2015/01/outlook-com-is-sile... posted on HN today indicates that Outlook is discarding mail from low reputation senders after accepting them. Perhaps that's happening to you?
Comment linking /2015/01/outlook-com-is-silently-discarding-email-messages/
on “Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest”Submitted Plausible and Fathom analytics are not GDPR compliant as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> There are no issues with POP and multiple clients whatsoever. POP3 in standard only have "Leave a copy on the server" but lack synchronisation mechanism. > I suggest you to educate yourself on DKIM, DMARC, SPF and SMTP before making those statements. You cannot use SMTP in real world without these protocols. Your messages would automatically land in spam folders of big providers. For example, if you want to send e…
Comment linking /2020/02/self-hosting-email-in-2020-joe-nobody-vs-world/
on “Why email startups fail”Submitted Self-hosting email in 2020: Joe Nobody vs. World as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThat's only from your perspective. Website owners are still sending visitors IP-addresses your way. They have to trust you to do the hashing and deleting the salt (and pepper?) and not delivering data to others (4th party). Another problem you - and others like goatcounter have - is described here https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2020/07/plausible-analytics... .
Comment linking /2020/07/plausible-analytics-review-browser-fingerprinting-and-cname-cloaking/
on “Using Google Analytics without GDPR consent”Submitted In Buenos Aires, Homer Simpson Runs Your ISP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNothing but spam from .icu domains Ie what can be worse than a top level domain being owned/cobtrolled by a media company... https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/a-... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1240290 https://domaingang.com/domain-crime/first-renewal-scam-spam-... https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2019/08/icu-tld-i-see-you-s... https://iphoneteile.com/153520/How-do-I-block-all-…
Comment linking /2019/08/icu-tld-i-see-you-spammer/
on “Shortdot SA Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) Request for .ICU [pdf]”Submitted A look at the traffic originating from my Tor Exit relays as a story · 2 points
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