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Stirling Poon
Personal blog · stirling.co/blogsecurityprogramming
Stirling Poon's personal blog at stirling.co covers security and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post to back their argument that Cloudflare acts as a man-in-the-middle on TLS traffic. Commenters cite it as a source for that claim rather than discussing its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stirling's personal website
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/cloudflare-mitm/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-03-10
What Hacker News says?
Free MitM attack. Enough reason not to. https://scotthelme.co.uk/tls-conundrum-and-leaving-cloudflar... https://stirling.co/blog/cloudflare-mitm/
Comment linking /blog/cloudflare-mitm/
on “CloudFlare, We Have a Problem”>>So why is it only working with CF? Because CloudFlare is basically a MITM Attack.... that is authorized by the website owner. http://blog.ricardomacas.com/index.php?controller=post&actio... https://stirling.co/blog/cloudflare-mitm/
Comment linking /blog/cloudflare-mitm/
on “Simpler GitHub Pages publishing”Yes, some of us argue, that CloudFlare is the biggest MITM on the net. Now with added DNS interception feature. Some: https://blog.paymium.com/2014/02/19/the-cloudflare-mitm/ of: https://stirling.co/blog/cloudflare-mitm/ us: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8377029
Comment linking /blog/cloudflare-mitm/
on “Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic”