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TrustFoundry
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TrustFoundry is the company blog at trustfoundry.net, writing about security. Since 2016, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-04-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link TrustFoundry's security posts as references, including a basic return-oriented programming (ROP) techniques post and a reverse engineering write-up of a discovered card skimmer.
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.
TrustFoundry is a penetration testing firm in Overland Park, Kansas, testing applications, networks, mobile, cloud and physical security since 2014. Findings reach your portal as they are approved.
Most-linked posts?
- Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-05-02
What Hacker News says?
I was unfamiliar with the term gadget in this context too, it seems to refer to an exploitation technique to bypass ASLR: https://ctf101.org/binary-exploitation/return-oriented-progr... . https://trustfoundry.net/2019/07/18/basic-rop-techniques-and...
Comment linking /2019/07/18/basic-rop-techniques-and-tricks-2/
on “The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken”Submitted Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer as a story · 210 points
HN discussionHere's a hacker who found a skimmer and reverse engineered it. [0] [0] https://trustfoundry.net/reverse-engineering-a-discovered-at...
Comment linking /reverse-engineering-a-discovered-atm-skimmer/
on “How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera”Submitted Introduction to JIT Vulnerabilities in JavaScript Engines as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM Skimmer as a story · 2 points
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