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pseudorandom is a personal blog at pseudorandom.resistant.tech about security and programming. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Exploit Disclosure: Turning Thunderbird into a Decryption Oracle”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2021–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog's post on obfuscated Apple NeuralHash images, which argues the false positive rate of Apple's image hashing could be very high. One comment cites it as support for its own point.

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?

  1. Exploit Disclosure: Turning Thunderbird into a Decryption Oracle
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-05
  2. Writing a Fuzzer for NES Games
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
  3. Obfuscated Apples
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. This blogpost [1] by security researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis suggests that the false positive rate could be very high: [1] https://pseudorandom.resistant.tech/obfuscated_apples.html

    Comment linking /obfuscated_apples.html

    on “A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical”
  2. Submitted Writing a Fuzzer for NES Games as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Exploit Disclosure: Turning Thunderbird into a Decryption Oracle as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Obfuscated Apples as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Writing a Fuzzer for NES Games as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Exploit Disclosure: Turning Thunderbird into a Decryption Oracle as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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