<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tptacek threads</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tptacek</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:09:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/threads?id=tptacek" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not so much, the grey market is pretty well structured.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572496</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DNSSEC and DoH provide different security services. But to get the benefit of DNSSEC, you need to resolve recursively. DoH works for stub resolvers. That's all I'm saying.</p>
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<p>Wait, I must be misunderstanding you, because if you're resolving off Quad9, they can <i>definitely</i> poison your DNSSEC-signed records. Between a stub resolver and a recursor DNSSEC collapses down to a single "yes it was signed" bit in the header.<p>To protect yourself from an upstream resolver using DNSSEC, you need to be doing something akin to a full recursive lookup yourself. This is a flaw in the DNSSEC design and a reason why DoH took off instead.</p>
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<p>That's a weirdly confident prediction. Why do you think 309 isn't going to fall in our lifetimes?<p>"SHA2 will never be broken in our lifetimes" is something I've heard JP Aumasson say many times, but that's based on the fact that there's no line of sight anywhere to techniques that could break it. But you can't say that about 1024 bit RSA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:49:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571945</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google directly competes with the grey market for vulnerabilities. They are competitive in a bunch of different directions:<p>* They pay for vulnerabilities without reliable exploits (more for vulnerabilities that are demonstrably reliable).<p>* They don't require you to actually build a reliable exploit chain.<p>* They pay up front, not in tranches.<p>* They work with essentially all comers, unlike the grey market, where you're generally subcontracting to sell your first few.</p>
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<p>If the vulnerability is already being exploited in the wild --- as in, it's a vector people already know about and are tracking --- it's possibly not worth much at all. Vulnerability valuations depend heavily on the lifespan of the vulnerability; payments on black market are tranched (explicitly or less explicitly, as with "maintenance payments") based on whether they're patched.<p>Further: a <i>vulnerability</i> is probably not worth that much either, even if it's a hypercapable vulnerability, because the grey market buys full enablement kits, not vulnerability information. People making 6 figures on vulnerabilities are selling fully enabled full chain exploit systems, not just intelligence about a sandbox escape.</p>
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<p>For the last 2 years, I've tracked the Tranco Top 1000 sites, continuously checking DNS to see if any major sites have turned on DNSSEC (6% of the Top 100 do --- many of them government sites). Over those last 2 years, a total of 8 sites in the Tranco list have enabled it. It happens so rarely I could reasonably call them on the phone and share my misinformation about how moribund DNSSEC is to them directly.<p><a href="https://dnssecmenot.fly.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://dnssecmenot.fly.dev/</a><p>The PKI run by state-level actors isn't going to happen.</p>
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<p>Because they need it medically.</p>
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<p>Hard to imagine a diet of cultural significance that would put people into lifelong dialysis, at an epidemic scale.</p>
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<p>No, we wouldn't, you're right. We'd just replace LetsEncrypt and the ISRG with the security track records and policy integrity of the major DNS providers, many of which are state-controlled, and the largest of which are too important to revoke.<p>Really hard to understand why that hasn't happened yet!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:39:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560253</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nobody's denying this, but the <i>interesting</i> story about GLP-1s is that after you control for fat loss (for instance, by taking cohorts of patients that <i>aren't losing weight</i>) you still get evidence of these off-target effects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:41:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559072</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m sure you can just look up the studies, but note that GLP1s are widely prescribed to people without weight issues —— weight loss itself was originally an off-target effect. I have friends who run marathons who are on semaglutide.</p>
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<p>I don't know that anyone really pays list price for injectables, because the vendors do discount programs. Without insurance coverage, tirzepetide via Amazon Pharmacy is something like $450/mo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:57:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558750</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Generally studies showing off-target effects with GLP1s are at least attempting to control for this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:56:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558744</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlikely, but not implausible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:45:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557554</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Go ahead, make an inbound connection to my dev laptop. I'll even give you the IP address: it's 192.168.8.21.</p>
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<p>I know that's an article of faith among networking people but it's not actually true.</p>
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<p>I cofounded a company that ultimately got rolled up (Matasano, into NCC Group US) and think this is not a really good summary of the article. Rollup strategy is interesting!</p>
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<p>"Saying Zitron is wrong because XYZ made $2 instead of $1" is not a reasonable summary of the post we both just read and I don't think there's a point in trying to hash this out further if you disagree with that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:45:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531471</link><dc:creator>tptacek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tptacek in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a gross mischaracterization of what Dan Luu demonstrates in this piece as anybody can see for themselves simply by clicking on it. But the radical divergence of our premises (mine: based on the actual article; yours: unclear to me) explains why we're talking past each other.</p>
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