Hacker News: whitepoplar

New comment by whitepoplar in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

whitepoplar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:16:34 +0000

I'd like to switch to Bitwarden, but my singular focus is on security. I trust 1P because of its reputation in the security community. Does Bitwarden have any drawbacks when compared to 1P, security-wise?

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

whitepoplar — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:06:12 +0000

16e still uses a Broadcom chip for WiFi + Bluetooth, though. iPhone Air is currently the only iPhone that uses both Apple-designed baseband + WiFi/BT chips.

New comment by whitepoplar in "An Update on Heroku"

whitepoplar — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:28:27 +0000

Thank you so much for this!

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

whitepoplar — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:26:56 +0000

Are you a person of high interest? I was under the impression that these sorts of breaches only happen to journalists, state officials, etc.

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

whitepoplar — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:13:00 +0000

How much do you think Lockdown Mode + MIE/eMTE helps? Do you believe state actors work with manufacturers to find/introduce new attack vectors?

New comment by whitepoplar in "An Update on Heroku"

whitepoplar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:59:16 +0000

Tell us more about some of these ideas and approaches that changed you as an engineer! We'd love to hear!

New comment by whitepoplar in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

whitepoplar — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:49:42 +0000

Given that A19 + M5 processors with MIE (EMTE) were only recently introduced, I wonder how extensively MacOS/iOS make use of the hardware features. Is it something that's going to take several years to see the benefit, or does MIE provide thorough protection today?

New comment by whitepoplar in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

whitepoplar — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:03:49 +0000

There's no way to easily tell that those phones have unlocked bootloaders, though. Ex-Verizon phones may be completely carrier unlocked, will work on any network, and still have locked bootloaders. This isn't an issue for anyone running stock Android, but will restrict those phones from being used to run GrapheneOS.

New comment by whitepoplar in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

whitepoplar — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:07:36 +0000

One caveat--you have to be certain that you get a Pixel with an unlocked bootloader. There are a lot of Pixels (mostly sold by Verizon) that are unlocked for use with any carrier, but whose bootloaders remain locked. If you have one of these ex-Verizon phones, there is no way as of now to unlock the bootloader.

New comment by whitepoplar in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

whitepoplar — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:38:46 +0000

I would hope so.

New comment by whitepoplar in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

whitepoplar — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:24:51 +0000

Thanks! I think you're right about just using an HDD, but for my portable SSD situation, after a full read of all blocks, how long would you leave the drive plugged in for? Does the refresh procedure typically take a while, or would it be completed in roughly the time it would take to read all blocks?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

whitepoplar — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:43:07 +0000

How long does the data refresh take, approx? Let's say I have an external portable SSD that I keep stored data on. Would plugging the drive into my computer and running

  dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress

work to refresh any bad blocks internally?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Claude Opus 4.5"

whitepoplar — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:51:59 +0000

Does the reduced price mean increased usage limits on Claude Code (with a Max subscription)?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking"

whitepoplar — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:40:55 +0000

This is great information, thank you! Do you happen to know to what extent MTE is used on Android 16 when both Advanced Protection is enabled and when the newly-released "Device Protection" feature is enabled?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Apple M5 chip"

whitepoplar — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:09:10 +0000

Any word on whether this chip has "Memory Integrity Enforcement" capability, as included in Apple's A19/A19 Pro chips?

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...

New comment by whitepoplar in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

whitepoplar — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:33:57 +0000

Can you recommend some good books on how to learn these things?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Memory Integrity Enforcement"

whitepoplar — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:24:45 +0000

Is this only available on iPhone 17 for now?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Claude Code is now available to Pro plans"

whitepoplar — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:20:28 +0000

Do you use Gemini 2.5 Pro via Cursor?

New comment by whitepoplar in "Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter"

whitepoplar — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:10:34 +0000

why "the biggest house you can reasonably afford"?

New comment by whitepoplar in "ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)"

whitepoplar — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:08:30 +0000

Given your expertise, any chance you can comment on the risk of data corruption on APFS given that it only checksums metadata?