Top all-time · #10215
– Writeups and random thoughts.
Personal blog · hexatomium.github.io · on HN as svenfawsecurityprogramming
– Writeups and random thoughts. is a personal blog at hexatomium.github.io about security and programming. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Air-gapped VirusTotal malware checks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these writeups on Windows root certificate updates and Microsoft security patches, including counts of trusted roots. Commenters cite them when discussing unannounced certificate changes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writeups and random thoughts.
Most-linked posts?
- Air-gapped VirusTotal malware checks2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-16
- Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-29
- Microsoft quietly pushes 17 new trusted root certificates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-27
What Hacker News says?
https://www.trustprobe.com/fs1/apps.html and http://hexatomium.github.io/ are still online, but the last RCC version is from September.
Comment linking /
on “Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate”Submitted Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list as a story · 390 points
HN discussionTrusted Root Certification Authorities and Third-Party Root Certification Authorities only show me a couple dozen roots each, https://snag.gy/pLwe3q.jpg where https://hexatomium.github.io/2016/10/11/unannounced-root-cer... says that Microsoft trusts 356 roots total, a list being here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3... Most notably for me, the list doesn't show any of the foreign roots,…
Comment linking /2015/08/29/why-is-windows/
on “New trusted root certificates added to Windows in unannounced update”Submitted Microsoft quietly pushes 18 new trusted root certificates as a story · 286 points
HN discussionIt did cross my mind as well. Considering the whole Russia drama right now, I wonder if the NSA just asked Microsoft to delay its patches for this month so it doesn't interrupt the agency's on-going operations against Russia. I doesn't help that Microsoft has been moving in a direction where it provides less and less information about what its updates do these days, while sneaking through dozens of new root certific…
Comment linking /2015/06/26/ms-very-quietly-adds-18-new-trusted-root-certs/
on “Microsoft’s February security update release delayed to March”Submitted A critical Windows component expires in 25 hours as a story · 276 points
HN discussionSubmitted Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed as a story · 255 points
HN discussionSubmitted New trusted root certificates added to Windows in unannounced update as a story · 168 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft silently adds Amazon root certificates to its CTL as a story · 166 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 10 has an undocumented certificate pinning feature as a story · 121 points
HN discussionSubmitted Conway's Polyglot: 1K file runs Game of Life both in the browser and on a C64 as a story · 30 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 10 Lock Screen Leaks Clipboard Contents as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted LastPass' password meter is broken as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted A strange Firefox address bar behavior as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Air-gapped VirusTotal malware checks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Air-gapped VirusTotal malware checks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows Lock Screen Leaks Clipboard Contents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Windows 10's undocumented certificate pinning feature as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't use LastPass to generate your passwords as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft pushes 5 undocumented root certificates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Air-gapped VirusTotal malware checks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoGoogle – A strange Firefox address bar behavior as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't run commands you don't really understand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't run commands you don't really understand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The powers of standard Windows accounts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MZZM – A new type of palindrome as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft pushes urgent CTL update to blacklist Dell root certificates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microsoft quietly pushes 17 new trusted root certificates as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
