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Roman Zipp
Personal blog · romanzipp.com/blogsecurityprogramming
Roman Zipp's personal blog at romanzipp.com covers security and programming. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Ongoing Checkout Hijack on Shopify Shops with "HulkApps"”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on Canon charging users to use their own camera as a webcam. One commenter called it a great article and noted the issue has been covered by Louis Rossman.
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.
Software Engineer & Photographer from Germany working on Open Source and Cloud
Most-linked posts?
- Ongoing Checkout Hijack on Shopify Shops with "HulkApps"2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-10
What Hacker News says?
Great article, yeah it is quite sad with these things. Louis Rossman talked extensively on these issues. By the way, your images go to a weird url for me, maybe it is because it is Brave browser. For example https://romanzipp.com/blog/[%7B%22id%22:%22assets::blog//no-...
on “Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam”Submitted Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam as a story · 1051 points
HN discussionhttps://romanzipp.com
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted Why Self-Host? as a story · 350 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shut the Fuck Up as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aircooling My iPhone for Privacy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shopify hit with phishing attack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ongoing Checkout Hijack on Shopify Shops with "HulkApps" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IAB-Inject Test Page as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
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