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Paul Makowski
Personal blog · paulmakowski.wordpress.comsecurityprogramming
Paul Makowski writes my 20%, a personal blog at paulmakowski.wordpress.com about security and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his posts on HTTP POST versus HTTPS, which covers sites sending passwords unprotected. One commenter calls a linked post a good overview of that topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
hacking, breaking things, malware, free time, etc.
What Hacker News says?
there are quite a lot of shellcode tutorials on the internet (or in bookstores)... This shellcoder handbook is good... http://www.amazon.com/Shellcoders-Handbook-Discovering-Explo... And articles such as this one by steve hanna http://www.vividmachines.com/shellcode/shellcode.html and this one by Aleph One on phrack, http://phrack.org/issues/49/14.html (by the way, many articles on phrack are really good) Some more…
Comment linking /2011/01/25/smashing-the-stack-in-2011/
on “Writing Shellcode in C/C++”Submitted Smashing the stack in 2011 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGood Overview: http://paulmakowski.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/http-post-https...
Comment linking /2009/07/20/http-post-https-bad-idea/
on “Six Months Later: Seven Major Websites that Send Passwords Unprotected”