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Ryan Boren
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Ryan Boren's personal blog at ryan.boren.me covers culture and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, 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 Ryan Boren's posts on WordPress security, including a 2008 post on SSL and cookies. Another commenter discusses his post about opting out of airport body scanners and a protest trip.
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.
Queer, neurodivergent, and disabled technologist turned wannabe-sociologist resisting neuronormative domination.
What Hacker News says?
While sites wait for services such as adsense to support SSL, adding a second Secure cookie and requiring on sensitive pages and to perform destructive actions can help reduce risk to users. Depending on the site, it may be OK to skip showing ads on a few authenticated pages. Wordpress implemented this in 2008: http://ryan.boren.me/2008/07/14/ssl-and-cookies-in-wordpress... This won't protect against active attacker…
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on “This is why sites choose to stay vulnerable to Firesheep”Submitted Cross Country Freedom Therapy as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI opt-out of backscatter and millimeter-wave screening every time. I think the TSA is a waste of money and I'd love to see the government take a more calculated approach to security instead of the typical CYA behavior. With that said... His form of protest is to miss a flight he already paid for and hike/bum rides back to Texas? And asking for donations? This guy is a software engineer at Automattic. He's a WordPres…
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on “Cross Country Freedom Therapy”