Blackmail Fail (2013)(gwern.net)

34 points by simonebrunozzi 2 months ago | 2 comments

What did I learn from OpenSnitch this summer?(people.skolelinux.org)

28 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 4 comments

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

546 points by miki123211 8 months ago | 204 comments

A Tell HN post reporting that YC startup RunAnywhere and Voice.AI scraped GitHub commit data to send unsolicited marketing emails, raising GDPR concerns.

2FA or Not 2FA(mikhailian.mova.org)

35 points by sam_lowry_ 1 year ago | 66 comments

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)(tim.dierks.org)

520 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 223 comments

Tim Dierks' 2014 blog post explaining how Netscape-Microsoft browser war politics led SSL to be standardized and renamed as TLS.

Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME(posixcafe.org)

113 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 15 comments

The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS(waxy.org)

768 points by waxpancake 3 years ago | 357 comments

Andy Baio's Waxy.org post reporting that a PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper ships with every copy of macOS since Catalina.

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?(spencermortensen.com)

319 points by jaden 6 months ago | 93 comments

An article comparing email address obfuscation techniques for websites and their effectiveness against spam harvesters; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.

Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator(nytimes.com)

558 points by jfirebaugh 6 months ago | 692 comments

New York Times article in which a reporter investigates the identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, pointing toward Adam Back; the capture shows a captcha page.

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account(daedal.io)

354 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 203 comments

A Mastodon post by Thom Zane asking for a human contact on Google's Gmail team to report a spammer who sent 10,000+ spam emails via Gmail.

Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files(jmail.world)

1379 points by lukeigel 10 months ago | 325 comments

Jmail is a Gmail-style web interface for browsing Jeffrey Epstein's emails released by Congress, part of a parody Google-like app suite for the Epstein files.

GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks(successfulsoftware.net)

215 points by hermitcrab 1 month ago | 89 comments

A Successful Software blog post complaining that GitHub has not removed malicious software imitating the author's product three weeks after it was reported.