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wroot
Personal blog · wroot.orgsecurityprogramming
wroot is a personal blog at wroot.org about security and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite this blog's posts on Android app permissions and apps enumerating installed packages, and on hard-drive encryption such as Daniel Dantas's work on TrueCrypt and BitLocker. The comments do not judge the writing.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
Having Xposed and XPrivacy on my old phone, it's really interesting what permissions apps request. For example FB Messenger requests the permission to enumerate installed packages: https://wroot.org/posts/enumerating-android-installed-applic... and IIRC also enumerates running tasks. So it's probably simple to do analytics for the whole phone...
Comment linking /posts/enumerating-android-installed-applications-without-special-permissions/
on “Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users”Submitted Babadook: Connectionless, Persistent Powershell “Backdoor” as a story · 75 points
HN discussionFor TC we have this story: http://wroot.org/posts/daniel-dantas-hard-drive-encryption-w... And for MS there is this story: http://www.geekwire.com/2013/report-microsoft-nsa/ This is of course no evidence for the (in)security of TC/Bitlocker, but I would call it indirect evidence, and certainly more than 'blind faith'.
Comment linking /posts/daniel-dantas-hard-drive-encryption-wins-over-fbi/
on “Replace TrueCrypt – Candidate alternatives”Submitted Babadook: Connectionless, Persistent Powershell “Backdoor” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted VirtuaPlant, Industrial Control System Simulator with Physics UI, Soft-PLC and HMI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Enumerating Android installed applications without special permissions as a story · 1 points
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