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thecomputerperson
Personal blog · thecomputerperson.wordpress.comsecurityprogramming
thecomputerperson is a personal blog at thecomputerperson.wordpress.com about security and programming. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on DNS and network issues, including a 2015 post on UK ISP BT hijacking DNS for parental-control filtering. One commenter cites it as an example of DNS problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Someone who spends too much time on computers.
What Hacker News says?
> I'm glad Snowden said DNS should be encrypted. You know, it's funny because just last week, I chatted with a friend of mine in the UK giving me some pretty crazy rundown of DNS issues he was having. I found out that BT (UK's leading ISP) hijacks DNS for parental control purposes (read: pornblock). More info here: https://thecomputerperson.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/bts-netwo... It boggles my mind actual major ISPs g…
Comment linking /2015/02/18/bts-network-based-content-filtering-porn-block-breaks-the-internet/
on “Snowden Meets the IETF”Submitted Enphase Envoy-S data scraping (2016) as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter leaks friends and family information as a story · 2 points
HN discussion