Hacker News: InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=InfoSecErikHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:30:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Map of Metal"]]>Try out MASTER BOOT RECORD and Amaranthe.

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:52:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227375InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227375<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Map of Metal"]]>The Sword might be what you're looking for - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7ndxWgW5A

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:32:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209424InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209424<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp"]]>I once participated in some work like this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_telephone_prefi... was super helpful. I couldn't find a link to libphonegen that they were referencing.

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:30:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986776InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986776https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45986776<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys"]]>IMO depends on your career. I did a lot of pentesting with Burp Suite so I was able to (forced to) pick it up.

]]>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:53:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44803406InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44803406https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44803406<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"]]>I think the disconnect is that you assume that being able to do useful computation on some data implies that it must be possible to derive some insight into what the data is (side-channels or the like).

It's a fair assumption to start with. But the folks building FHE basically claim "nuh-uh", and I haven't seen anything to indicate they're wrong. Maybe some new Math grad will sort it out.

]]>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:19:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605666InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605666https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605666<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Collatz's Ant"]]>I too have been playing with the conjecture for fun. Your insight is interesting because of the appearance of 2^n, given that that always resolves to 1 for all n.

]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:51:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773521InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773521https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773521<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"]]>Do what I did when UDub pushed me out: finish at UOregon.

]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:00:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639463InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639463https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42639463<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Wazuh – open-source Security Platform"]]>https://tldrsec.com/

]]>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:58:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997466InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997466https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41997466<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "An AWS IAM Security Tooling Reference"]]>PMapper author here: I can't give PMapper the love it deserves, but I fully support the work done in Fennerr's fork at https://github.com/Fennerr/PMapper .

]]>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 23:23:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352431InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352431<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "The Trouble with __all__"]]>The author seems to expect someone to be patrolling imports with a gun rather than a strongly-worded "we're not liable if you hurt yourself" sign.

]]>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:10:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133071InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133071https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133071<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI's Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her"]]>When I heard the demo, I assumed they licensed her voice until I read the press release.

]]>Tue, 21 May 2024 21:12:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434019InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434019<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, new study shows"]]>I remember hearing about this sort of thing from a grad student a few years back. She pointed out that there were interesting privacy concerns with these microbiomes, given how we leave traces of it.

]]>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:01:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39745508InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39745508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39745508<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Formalizing the proof of PFR in Lean4 using Blueprint: a short tour"]]>Lean has been a really exciting thing for me to watch (as an amateur observer), it's gonna go right up to the limits that Godel found.

]]>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:13:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535557InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535557https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535557<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "AWS Permission Boundaries for Dummies"]]>This diagram was pretty critical in helping me "get it": https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/images/Poli...

]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:38:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196813InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196813https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33196813<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "1 in 4 Gen Z-ers plan to become social media influencers"]]>I remember planning to do something in video games as I was growing up. Ended up in a different but fairly related field. Maybe this is just a sign of the next generation of people that'll work in advertising/marketing/PR/media/fashion?

]]>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:47:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32691474InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32691474https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32691474<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Scanning for AWS Security Issues with Trivy"]]>Alternate tool in the same space: https://github.com/nccgroup/ScoutSuite

]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:42:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485319InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485319<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_telephone_prefi...

]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:32:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32401959InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32401959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32401959<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot"]]>In the same vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXacA35s6vo

]]>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 18:54:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360348InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360348https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360348<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Want to start hacking?"]]>Flat out untrue, I know a friend who started in the field out of high school and was getting DA in places before he could even drink.

EDIT: My bad, misread your comment.

]]>Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:30:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32251670InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32251670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32251670<![CDATA[New comment by InfoSecErik in "Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream"]]>I ran into a similar issue. It took a Google search plus following a nicely documented guide to reset, and I was back at it. Way easier fix process than dealing with support.

]]>Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:21:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181242InfoSecErikhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32181242