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PVIEITO
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PVIEITO is a personal blog at pvieito.com about security and programming. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Claude Cowork”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link PVIEITO's posts on Apple Wallet passes and the MakePass app, on OpenAI's Keychain-encrypted user data, and on how Claude Cowork works. One commenter calls the Cowork writeup helpful.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Claude Cowork2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
- Jailbreaking MacOS: Patching AMFI to Allow Arbitrary Entitlements2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-27
What Hacker News says?
One thing that I would watch out for with _all_ OpenAI products is that they use Keychain's Access Control lists to encrypt data such that _you_ cannot unlock or access it. It's a change that they made to 'fix' this issue: https://pvieito.com/2024/07/chatgpt-unprotected-conversation... The net effect however is that if you use their apps, you can get data _in_, but you can only get it _out_ in ways that their apps t…
Comment linking /2024/07/chatgpt-unprotected-conversations
on “ChatGPT Atlas”Submitted Coldplay Xyloband Reverse Engineering as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave a look at MakePass[0] - which sounds exactly like you describe. It allows you to design a pass as per spec. [0] https://pvieito.com
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on “Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything”Submitted GIF support coming to WhatsApp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMakePass is an app that creates independent/proper Wallet *.pkpass files. You can completely customise the pass appearance according to Apple’s specs. (Not sure whether the current licensing offerings are worth it, though. I’ve got grandfathered in from before it had AI support.) https://pvieito.com
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on “Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything”Submitted Introducing the YMARK specification as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Seems pretty obvious in retrospect (and probably would have been obvious at the time, too) - they don't care about locking down Macs, but they do care about locking down iPhones and iPads. Are we sure yet? Apple ships a read only system partition now, and requires the users to go through hoops to remove that, and they have been adding more and more of the random codesign and entitlement locking features to their b…
Comment linking /2016/12/amfid-patching
on “Apple’s Great GPL Purge (2012)”Submitted Claude Cowork as a story · 1 points
HN discussionClaude Cowork (part of the Desktop app) is claude code, running inside a VM. Helpful writeup here: https://pvieito.com/2026/01/inside-claude-cowork (I am not the author)
Comment linking /2026/01/inside-claude-cowork
on “Local LLM by Ente”Submitted Jailbreaking MacOS: Patching AMFI to Allow Arbitrary Entitlements as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWallet passes allow you to define locations and timespans where the pass is "relevant". I've used the app MakePass to create a pass with my StarBucks membership code and when I'm nearing my usual shops, my phone will automatically suggest the StarBucks pass on the lock screen. Same with event tickets. I define a location and timespan and when I arrive at that location, my phone will suggest the pass automatically wi…
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on “Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way”