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Scott Leggett

Personal blog · smlx.devsecuritysystems

Scott Leggett's personal blog at smlx.dev covers security and systems. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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4mentions?
3HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2024

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

Why HN links it

One commenter links this post on kubectl global state as a simpler alternative to the Kubesafe tool, keeping Kubernetes contexts separate per terminal.

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, cloud, infosec, and miscellany.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. I came up with a simpler solution that keeps kube contexts separated per terminal. https://smlx.dev/posts/kubectl-global-state/

    Comment linking /posts/kubectl-global-state/

    on “Kubesafe: Never run Kubernetes commands on the wrong cluster again”
  2. Submitted Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol as a story · 232 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted OpenAI / Hugging Face Hack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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