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Tom Chantler
Personal blog · tomssl.comsecurityprogramming
Tom Chantler writes Tom SSL, a personal blog at tomssl.com about security and programming. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link posts on password expectations for service providers and on running Visual Studio as Administrator, where 64-bit ASLR protections matter on shared machines.
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.
by Tom Chantler, a cloud architect who likes writing about anything that interests him and who likes solving difficult problems as efficiently as possible.
What Hacker News says?
"What should service providers do?": https://tomssl.com/2016/10/21/a-sensible-password-strategy/ This is a pretty straightforward set of expectations which should solve most issues.
Comment linking /2016/10/21/a-sensible-password-strategy/
on “Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game”Submitted Generating a Bitcoin Vanity Address with Azure N-Series GPU Virtual Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might still care about security properties/exploits in Visual Studio given that a lot of use cases involve running it as Administrator: https://tomssl.com/2015/03/31/always-run-visual-studio-as-ad... I mean realistically don't know how much of a concern this is, but it's conceivable you might be running Visual Studio with elevated permissions on a shared machine and in turn want the ASLR protections.
Comment linking /2015/03/31/always-run-visual-studio-as-administrator-with-no-uac-prompt/
on “Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015)”Submitted Backup SQLite database with zero downtime when running Ghost in Azure Web Apps as a story · 2 points
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