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RedTeam Pentesting
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RedTeam Pentesting is the company blog at blog.redteam-pentesting.de, writing about security. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Remarkable Encryption – From Threat Model to Final Implementation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its hands-on posts about hacking the reMarkable 2 e-paper tablet, including bricking and recovering the device and its encryption. The comments cite these posts as sources.
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.
Blog with insights about information security from the perspective of a team of penetration testers.
Most-linked posts?
- Remarkable Encryption – From Threat Model to Final Implementation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-21
- Analysing the WebSocket Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2020-13935)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-02
What Hacker News says?
The UI stuff is here: https://blog.redteam-pentesting.de/2021/remarkable-encryptio...
Comment linking /2021/remarkable-encryption/
on “I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2”Submitted Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords as a story · 325 points
HN discussionThe remarkable 2, especially if you downgrade the OS to the older 2.x versions, is very hackable. It runs full Linux, I followed a blog post about setting up FDE on it using go and cryptfs [1]. You can make GUI applications, people have even run XFCE, and people have fed handwriting input to another API so routing it internally shouldn't be much harder. So yes, theoretically you can turn the reMarkable 2 into a emac…
Comment linking /2021/remarkable-encryption/
on “Handwriting Programs in J (2017)”Submitted A PBX – Discovering a Firmware Backdoor as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wholesome Curl Calls for Your Blog Posts as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back to School – Exploiting a Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Moodle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Trace Down a Deserialisation Gadget Chain in PHP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing monsoon – a lean and versatile HTTP enumerator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analysing the WebSocket Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2020-13935) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Look in the Mirror – The Reflective Kerberos Relay Attack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Guide to Windows Coercion Techniques in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better DSAFER Than Sorry – An Attacker's Overview of Ghostscript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remarkable Encryption – From Threat Model to Final Implementation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diving into a WebSocket Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat as a story · 1 points
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