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The Shadow File

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The Shadow File is a personal blog at shadow-file.blogspot.com about security. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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2013–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2015

My notes on technology, security, and personal projects

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  1. Submitted Complete, Persistent Compromise of Netgear Wireless Routers as a story · 179 points

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  2. Submitted Broken, Abandoned, and Forgotten Code, Part 1 as a story · 14 points

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  3. Submitted Patching, Emulating, and Debugging a Netgear Embedded Web Server as a story · 11 points

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  4. Submitted Broken, Abandoned, and Forgotten Code, Part 12 – Malloc/Free Spelunking as a story · 3 points

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  5. Submitted Broken, Abandoned, and Forgotten Code Part 8 – The Return of the Buffer Overflow as a story · 3 points

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  6. Submitted Netgear Root Compromise via Command Injection as a story · 2 points

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  7. Submitted Broken, Abandoned, and Forgotten Code: Prologue as a story · 1 points

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