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the wild web
Personal blog · blog.sidstamm.comsecurityweb
the wild web is a personal blog at blog.sidstamm.com about security and web. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Clearing Flash cookies using Firefox”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sid Stamm's blog for technical posts on browser privacy and security, such as Firefox's Safe Browsing cookie handling, HTTP Strict Transport Security and Flash cookie tracking.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
[ thoughts on web privacy and security ]
Most-linked posts?
- Clearing Flash cookies using Firefox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-15
- /2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protection-in.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-24
What Hacker News says?
See http://blog.sidstamm.com/2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protec... and http://bugzil.la/368255 Google's Safe Browsing API (malware and phishing protection) requires a cookie. But Firefox puts that cookie in a separate bucket than the one used for regular requests. If you have cookies enabled, you'll actually end up with two separate google.com "PREF" cookies - one for regular HTTP requests, and one just for for upd…
Comment linking /2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protection-in.html
on “Firefox 33”Submitted Reckless Software Construction as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThis is great. It would be even better if HN would use the Strict-Transport-Security header so that browser remember to prefer https instead of http for this site. See http://blog.sidstamm.com/2010/08/http-strict-transport-secur...
Comment linking /2010/08/http-strict-transport-security-has.html
on “HN now comes with HTTPS?”Submitted Clearing Flash cookies using Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's already shipping in some: http://blog.sidstamm.com/2011/05/clearing-flash-cookies-usin...
Comment linking /2011/05/clearing-flash-cookies-using-firefox.html
on “Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can’t Be Dodged”You should really look into how phishing protection works in Firefox [1], it's not implemented in a naive way (i.e. does not send the url to a third party), and does not compromise your privacy. [1]: http://blog.sidstamm.com/2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protec...
Comment linking /2012/02/malware-and-phishing-protection-in.html
on “Mozilla Leadership Changes”
