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Neal Krawetz

hackerfactor.com

Popular posts: 18
Total points: 5,124
HN comments: 2,137
Rank: #211 personal

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Security & Privacy 12 Networking & Internet 4 AI & Machine Learning 3 Web & Frontend 2 Math & Algorithms 2 Society, Policy & Culture 1

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1

One Bad Apple

20211,484 points524 commentscited by 23Security & Privacy details

2

Reasons Python Sucks

2018405 points535 comments Programming Languages details

3

How Perceptual Hashes Work

2011354 points75 commentscited by 9AI & Machine Learning details

4

Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret photo

2009308 points92 comments AI & Machine Learning details

5

Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses

2020257 points117 comments Security & Privacy details

6

The Photographic Science of Detecting Fake Lottery Tickets

2012254 points49 comments Science & Space details

7

Deanonymizing Tor Circuits

2020243 points107 comments Security & Privacy details

8

Tor 0day: Stopping Tor Connections

2020227 points88 comments Security & Privacy details

9

Unbelievable

2013226 points107 comments Security & Privacy details

10

Putin on the Ritz

2014208 points85 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

11

Life of Brian (Krebs)

2014184 points50 comments Security & Privacy details

12

Handling bot attacks against a Tor hidden service

2017169 points34 commentscited by 7Security & Privacy details

13

The Canary Chirps

2021149 points17 comments Security & Privacy details

14

Meta's Un-Stable Signature

2026146 points25 comments AI & Machine Learning details

15

PNG and Hidden Pixels

2020143 points42 comments Security & Privacy details

16

Problems caused by Google crawlers

2018142 points49 comments Web & Frontend details

17

There will be blood - Photo Analysis

2013115 points56 comments Security & Privacy details

18

Exploiting the TOR-Browser

2017110 points85 comments Security & Privacy details