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The JeroenHD blog

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The JeroenHD blog is a personal blog at blog.jeroenhd.nl about security and programming. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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3HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2023

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

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for practical how-to posts on Android certificates and VPN app internals, such as making apps trust user-installed certificates for HTTP/S debugging.

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.

What Hacker News says?

  1. If you have root access, you can [1]. You can also build your own apps to trust the "user" certificates [2]. [1]: https://blog.jeroenhd.nl/article/android-7-nougat-and-certif... [2]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to...

    Comment linking /article/android-7-nougat-and-certificate-authorities

    on “Show HN: A proxy service for debugging HTTP/S traffic”
  2. Submitted Firefox for Android: Using a Custom Certificate Authority as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here you go: https://blog.jeroenhd.nl/article/getting-norton-secure-vpn-t... Not the best writing, it was mostly a recap of the things I did for myself if I ever needed to fetch that file again, but I think the core concepts may still be useful.

    Comment linking /article/getting-norton-secure-vpn-to-work-on-linux

    on “Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet”

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