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Utku Sen
Personal blog · utkusen.com/blogsecurityprogramming
Utku Sen's personal blog at utkusen.com covers security and programming. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Security by obscurity is underrated”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a reference in a discussion of ransomware and weak encryption, where attackers reuse leaked or broken code. The comment cites the blog's post and does not judge the writing itself.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Security by obscurity is underrated3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- Torture-Proof Authentication2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-26
- Destroying the Encryption of Hidden Tear Ransomware2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-19
What Hacker News says?
Well, the bigger problem would be ensuring that the criminals used known broken encryption. The only advantage is that many of these attacks are copy-cat, so if you released the source code for a broken ransomware implementation, it will probably get used more or less verbatim… as has been shown in the past. ( https://threatpost.com/bitcrypt-ransomware-deploying-weak-cr... , https://www.utkusen.com/blog/destroying-t…
Comment linking /blog/destroying-the-encryption-of-hidden-tear-ransomware.html
on “Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool”Submitted Security by obscurity is underrated as a story · 939 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security through obscurity is underrated (2020) as a story · 105 points
HN discussionSubmitted Destroying the Encryption of Hidden Tear Ransomware as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Introduction to Arcade Security as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security by Obscurity Is Underrated as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Torture-Proof Authentication as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Project Eda2 Is Abandoned Due to Magic Ransomware Incident as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sending Valid Phishing E-mails from Microsoft.com Domain by Using Office 365 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Torture-Proof Authentication as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serving Django App Statically at the Lowest Cost Possible as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with Script Kiddies – Cryptear.B Incident as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Destroying the Encryption of Hidden Tear Ransomware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security by Obscurity Is Underrated as a story · 1 points
HN discussion