Hacker News: ikmckenz

New comment by ikmckenz in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

ikmckenz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:48:38 +0000

This is different than push data, which already does not contain any content or metadata in Signal. This is about local OS caches, whereas for push notifications Signal only sends a push saying “message received” which wakes the device up and triggers the device to pull the message from the server over the regular e2e encrypted path.

New comment by ikmckenz in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

ikmckenz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:59:15 +0000

I really want a small SBC with USB-C DP Alt mode that I can stuff into a ~60%ish mechanical keyboard-sized case to make into a headless laptop thing so I can justify buying some display glasses like the XReal One or similar. Seems like it would be the ultimate travel computing solution.

New comment by ikmckenz in "Good Bad ISPs"

ikmckenz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:51:07 +0000

Parent comment was talking about relay nodes, not exit nodes. The risk of running a relay node is essentially zero in a free country.

New comment by ikmckenz in "Good Bad ISPs"

ikmckenz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:50:15 +0000

I think the hosts that Tor recommends against because there are already so many nodes hosted on them like OVH and Hetzner are perfectly happy with their (quite good) reputations.

New comment by ikmckenz in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

ikmckenz — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:16:08 +0000

That’s almost what we already have with the CVE system, just without the legal protections. You report the vulnerability to the NSA, let them have their fun with it, then a fix is coordinated to be released much further down the line. Personally I don’t think it’s the best idea in the world, and entrenching it further seems like a net negative.

New comment by ikmckenz in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

ikmckenz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:57:20 +0000

Your opinion is that Apple should have just handed over Jamal Khashoggi‘s information to the Saudi Arabian agents who were trying to kill him, because then Saudi Arabia wouldn’t have been incentivized to hack his phone? I think you’ll find most people’s priorities differ from yours.

New comment by ikmckenz in "The Day the Telnet Died"

ikmckenz — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:40:58 +0000

OpenSSH has been moving quite quickly in the direction of multiple, privilege separated processes, each also heavily sandboxed with pledge and unveil

New comment by ikmckenz in "OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor"

ikmckenz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:16:06 +0000

As of 2025 OpenBSD has support for AMD SEV and SEV-ES, with support for SEV-SNP work-in-progress, so with the right hardware yes it's able to isolate itself sufficiently https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Confidential...

New comment by ikmckenz in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

ikmckenz — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:05:42 +0000

> very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed ... say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations

I would think very deep interests in niche or obscure topics is correlated with increased cognitive ability, not a decrease.

New comment by ikmckenz in "Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon"

ikmckenz — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:06:34 +0000

Is this comment AI written?

New comment by ikmckenz in "Look, Another AI Browser"

ikmckenz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:36:29 +0000

Why won't these sites simply block this browser?

New comment by ikmckenz in "ADS-B Exposed"

ikmckenz — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:02:28 +0000

What's the story behind adsbexchange selling out?

New comment by ikmckenz in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

ikmckenz — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:30:48 +0000

No, historically the vast majority of communication was not recorded, and so a warrant could not be used to access the communication. The fact of the modern world is that for the first time in history almost everything we do is recorded, and so subject to those warrants.

New comment by ikmckenz in "The great AI delusion is falling apart"

ikmckenz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:32:31 +0000

> They forgot about training and practice. Try it with airplanes. "The results surprised us. Given Boeing 777 they thought they will get from London to New York in 7 hours, but they actually couldn't even get off the ground. In fact they couldn't even start the engines."

If your "AI Assistant" is as hard to operate as a trans-Atlantic flight on a Boeing 777, perhaps it's not a very good assistant?

New comment by ikmckenz in "Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase"

ikmckenz — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:22:01 +0000

I would expect that data to be mostly noise though, after all, there is pretty strong evidence towards some soft form of "set point" level of happiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

New comment by ikmckenz in "XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne"

ikmckenz — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:07:20 +0000

All of them are real? You have a 100% rate of reports closed as valid?

New comment by ikmckenz in "XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne"

ikmckenz — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:53:39 +0000

New comment by ikmckenz in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

ikmckenz — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:08:01 +0000

Except for the fact that the security of Session is drastically worse than Signal.

https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/ https://soatok.blog/2025/01/20/session-round-2/

New comment by ikmckenz in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

ikmckenz — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:43:39 +0000

> the EU has not yet stomped them into mulch hard enough yet I see

This is literally the result of EU "stomping"

New comment by ikmckenz in "Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia"

ikmckenz — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:25:45 +0000

And yet I don't see Apple on the list of contributors of the OpenBSD Foundation (https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html), shame.