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Stefan Frei

Personal blog · techzoom.net/publicationssecurity

Stefan Frei's personal blog at techzoom.net covers security. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Why Silent Updates Boost Security”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.

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5HN people?
2008–2010first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2009

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts cover silent browser updates, how they affect security, and how fast users upgrade browsers, using Chrome as the example. Both comments cite the posts as sources without judging the writing.

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.

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Most-linked posts?

  1. Why Silent Updates Boost Security
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-12
  2. Why silent [browser] updates boost security
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-05-08

What Hacker News says?

  1. ZeroGravitas · 2009-07-17
    They published a paper on how they intend to increase browser security. Silent updates was a big factor because, basically, most internet users don't have a clue what they're doing. "Why Silent Updates Boost Security" http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/

    Comment linking /publications/silent-updates/

    on “A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small”
  2. briansmith · 2009-05-12

    Submitted Why Silent Updates Boost Security as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. wyday · 2010-04-12
    Someone from Google Switzerland wrote up a study on browser upgrades: http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/index.en . He came to the same conclusion, namely that aggressive automatic-upgrades lead to faster distribution of the stabler more secure versions. Google seems to be taking a "website for the desktop" approach to the browser upgrades. If Google updates their homepage, the user gets the new ver…

    Comment linking /publications/silent-updates/index.en

    on “How fast do people upgrade to new browsers”
  4. bonaldi · 2009-05-08

    Submitted Why silent [browser] updates boost security as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. nickb · 2008-07-01

    Submitted Understanding the Web browser threat as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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