Hacker News: JackGreyhat

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Stop Using Face ID"

JackGreyhat — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:14:59 +0000

Thats why some PIN screen implementations have PIN screen scrambling. It can defeat shoulder surfing.

New comment by JackGreyhat in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

JackGreyhat — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:05:49 +0000

It's the attack path.

New comment by JackGreyhat in "YouTube seems to once again be rolling out its widely hated new web redesign"

JackGreyhat — Wed, 22 May 2024 23:20:20 +0000

How did you know f-droid's certificate was about to expire? Do you keep track?

New comment by JackGreyhat in "I can fix this PC, boss, but I'll need to play games for hours to do it"

JackGreyhat — Fri, 03 May 2024 21:33:42 +0000

"Autoruns" is the sysinternals tool you're talking about ;)

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network"

JackGreyhat — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:06:29 +0000

An AP or wlan router that supports vlan to ssid mapping.

New comment by JackGreyhat in "iPhone seemingly sends iOS keyboard data to an iCloud server"

JackGreyhat — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:07:51 +0000

At least GrapheneOS devs are transparant about it, as it should:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections

New comment by JackGreyhat in "iPhone seemingly sends iOS keyboard data to an iCloud server"

JackGreyhat — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:00:47 +0000

Would you be willing to share your full list?

New comment by JackGreyhat in "EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals"

JackGreyhat — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 05:53:44 +0000

So you mean an alternative such as Mastodon?

New comment by JackGreyhat in "EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals"

JackGreyhat — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:04:41 +0000

Ah yes...the beauty of Android.

Facebook: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.pitchedapps.frost/

Instagram: https://f-droid.org/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023"

JackGreyhat — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 20:47:25 +0000

Easy-rsa to the rescue. Been using it for a while, works great and makes life easier :)

Link: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa

Summary from that page:

easy-rsa is a CLI utility to build and manage a PKI CA. In laymen's terms, this means to create a root certificate authority, and request and sign certificates, including intermediate CAs and certificate revocation lists (CRL).

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Block the Bots That Feed “AI” Models by Scraping Your Website"

JackGreyhat — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:31:19 +0000

Do you use this approach?

If so, are you willing to share an example robots.txt file? What bots would be allowed? Google, Bing, ...? Those?

Explainer: How to Weigh an Exoplanet

JackGreyhat — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://extrasolartimes.substack.com/p/explainer-how-to-weigh-an-exoplanet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120375

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Pirate site not impressed by Global DNS blocking order"

JackGreyhat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:29:13 +0000

I just checked and cannot reach RT from Germany, using the ISP provided DNS server. I think that is key.

New comment by JackGreyhat in "How NAT traversal works (2020)"

JackGreyhat — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:53:30 +0000

Check this:

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/what-is-dns-tunn...

See the "Preventing DNS Tunneling" chapter.

New comment by JackGreyhat in "YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers"

JackGreyhat — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 22:17:47 +0000

and LibreTube:

https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool"

JackGreyhat — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:42:55 +0000

Unrelated to the software itself, but it is amazing how this website runs http without redirecting to https. You don't see that very often any more. It's probably an oversight, I guess :)

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

JackGreyhat — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:55:26 +0000

The human eye has an approximate pixel resolution of 120 million pixels per eye. On top of that, our brain constantly processes and integrates the output of our eyes. This creates an even higher perceived pixel resolution of about 480 million pixels per eye. Some estimates are even higher.

I'm not saying Apple created a bad product...but I wouldn't expect a mere 23 million pixels to be indistinguishable from reality.

Lots of small planets around small stars have circular orbits

JackGreyhat — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://extrasolartimes.substack.com/p/lots-of-small-planets-around-small

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36170942

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Daniel Micay publicly steps down from GrapheneOS"

JackGreyhat — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:46:10 +0000

For those of you that want to stay on HN, and not visit twitter:

From @DanielMicay:

"I've stepped down as lead developer of GrapheneOS and will be replaced as a GrapheneOS Foundation director. I'll be ending my use of public social media. I'm unable to handle the escalating level of harassment including recent swatting attacks. There will be a smooth migration."

"I'm confident the project will be in good hands with the rest of the development team. I'll be training them to handle everything I used to do myself. I haven't been a particularly active developer for a while now and there will be little impact on ongoing feature development."

"One of our veteran developers will be taking over administration of the server infrastructure. Local infrastructure for official builds, signing and testing will be replicated in multiple locations and verified against each other to reduce trust in any particular location."

"I'm going to focus on recovery from everything that has transpired since 2018. I have not been doing well, particularly in the past few weeks, but there has been no break from it since 2018. The police know about the swatting situation and are preventing it happening again."

New comment by JackGreyhat in "Daniel Micay publicly steps down from GrapheneOS"

JackGreyhat — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:43:14 +0000

A statement from the man himself:

https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1662212227561308160