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Personal blog · shiftordie.de/blogsecurityprogramming

shift or die is a personal blog at shiftordie.de about security and programming. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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10HN people?
2017–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 9 in 2017

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

Why HN links it

One comment cites a 2017 post on Firefox fingerprinting as the original source, following HN's submission guidelines, for a news article on the same topic. No comment judges the writing.

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.

Turning off certificate validation with Java instrumentation ...

Most-linked posts?

  1. SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-02-18
  2. Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-02-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. from HN guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. The original (which is clearly linked in the register article) is at https://shiftordie.de/blog/2017/02/21/fingerprinting-firefox...

    Comment linking /blog/2017/02/21/fingerprinting-firefox-users-with-cached-intermediate-ca-certificates-fiprinca/

    on “Firefox users can be Fingerprinted due to Certificate Cache Bug”
  2. Submitted Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates as a story · 110 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted SMTP over XXE as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted XXE Vulnerability − how to send emails using Java's XML parser as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Tmpnix – an alternative to static binaries for post exploitation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certs as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Fingerprinting Firefox users with cached intermediate CA certificates as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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