Hacker News: ethical

New comment by ethical in "Map of Metal"

ethical — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:13:21 +0000

There is no need for anything else, on the Internet.

Poppy – Dynamic Instrumentation Pipeline for macOS Security Research

ethical — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jetnoir/poppy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132171

Points: 1

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New comment by ethical in "DeepSeek and Grok hallucinated the same fictitious OpenBSD manpage quote"

ethical — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:04:45 +0000

Author here. Happy to answer questions about the methodology or the hallucination detection technique. The identical-text convergence between DeepSeek and Grok was the most surprising part of the day — two separate sessions, same fabricated attribution. The empirical gate (re-reading the actual manpage) took about 90 seconds to catch it.

DeepSeek and Grok hallucinated the same fictitious OpenBSD manpage quote

ethical — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://stuart-thomas.com/research/the-empirical-council/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123714

Points: 1

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New comment by ethical in "My security research PoC was confirming exploits that didn't exist"

ethical — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:23:17 +0000

Author here. Happy to answer questions about the methodology, the broader Are You There? series (16 closed findings in total), or how Apple's security response process works in practice.

My security research PoC was confirming exploits that didn't exist

ethical — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:15:34 +0000

Article URL: https://stuart-thomas.com/are-you-there/the-harness-that-lied/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120449

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Show HN: First Native macOS SDK for NXP NTAG 424 DNA NFC Authentication

ethical — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:52:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jetnoir/ntag424-macos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639561

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ethical in "Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024"

ethical — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:53:00 +0000

What they don't tell you. Everyone in the company will hate you, no one will fix the bugs you find, HR will want to sack you for fun, and the execs are all psycho's. Find a better career, like watching paint dry, or become a monk. Its fun, but not worth it. People are twats.

New comment by ethical in "Slouching towards San Francisco"

ethical — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:22:28 +0000

lol, just ask yourself, where are all my elders? Why are we in a zone of same agers. Ah, ignorance is bliss, your future is elsewhere. Enjoy it whilst it lasts.

New comment by ethical in "The Complete History of Lemmings"

ethical — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:38:10 +0000

emmings started life as a simple animation back in August 1989 when DMA Design had just moved into their first office (which only consisted of 2 small rooms), and were beginning a new game called Walker (based on the walker that was used in Blood Money).

The Complete History of Lemmings

ethical — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 05:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lemmings.info/lemmings-gamehistory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41354313

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Early Computer Security Papers, Part I [1970-1985] [pdf]

ethical — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://csrc.nist.gov/files/pubs/conference/1998/10/08/proceedings-of-the-21st-nissc-1998/final/docs/early-cs-papers/early-cs-papers-1970-1985.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344938

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ethical in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

ethical — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:27:49 +0000

The problem? Agile and software. Too many monkeys trying to write a Shakespeare non masterpiece.

New comment by ethical in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

ethical — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:27:07 +0000

The problem? Agile and Software. Too many monkeys trying to write a Shakespeare non masterpiece.

New comment by ethical in "Less is more agile"

ethical — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:32:13 +0000

What a crock of poo. No security as ever. Fowler now bothers to mention Threat mOdeling. You engineers are rubbish. You are so lazy, and hate security so much. Even in healthcare and medical devices. Security is EASY! but alas, most of you and the management drones do not have a clue.

Agile has killed more people than Waterfall. Terrible. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Do try harder! lol

New comment by ethical in "Projects for Old Versions of OS X"

ethical — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 16:09:27 +0000

Oh yes! this is marvellous! thank you, I just needed a modern web browser and a fix for the HTTPS issues (all the recent ones become unsupported)! I agree on the security front. If you have hygenic browsing habbits, appart from driveby, and phishing, you might be ok. I suppose a crond Clam routine scan may help. I do like Ubuntu, it works really well on the core duo 32bit iMac. But I shall try Lion with these fixes for a while. :-)

New comment by ethical in "Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22"

ethical — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:46:23 +0000

1: Yup. 2: Its the legal definition under the GDPR ( a European law, that applies to the US, via Privacy Shield). If you can't get to your data - you get the idea?

TLDR;

New comment by ethical in "SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way"

ethical — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 08:57:55 +0000

Lazy ass humans. Externality - not the victim of your own decisions.

New comment by ethical in "Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22"

ethical — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 08:52:02 +0000

Doesn't anyone learn anything. Youth is not an achievement. Experience is. Having to refer to a book, rather than good change management practices, highlights the madness of agile tosh, and ignorance in terms of capacity and performance management. It's also a data breach incident (denial of service, unavailability), I hope they reported this to the UK ICO, and each countries data protection regulator. Amateurish rubbish.