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Matthew Garrett

mjg59.dreamwidth.org

Popular posts: 60
Total points: 15,093
HN comments: 8,418
Rank: #44 personal

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Security & Privacy 31 Society, Policy & Culture 21 Hardware & Electronics 20 Systems & Performance 15 Networking & Internet 9 Open Source 8

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1

I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was as bad as you'd think

2016928 points314 commentscited by 3Hardware & Electronics details

2

Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

2016778 points185 comments Open Source details

3

Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default

2022551 points389 commentscited by 5Hardware & Electronics details

4

WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security

2019545 points222 comments Security & Privacy details

5

The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM

2025445 points472 comments Security & Privacy details

6

What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care

2024423 points253 comments Security & Privacy details

7

TVs are all awful

2012416 points160 comments Hardware & Electronics details

8

A quick look at the Ikea Trådfri lighting platform

2017412 points137 comments Hardware & Electronics details

9

Booting Modern Intel CPUs

2023403 points126 comments Systems & Performance details

10

Android permissions and hypocrisy

2017395 points240 comments Security & Privacy details

11

More awful IoT stuff

2016384 points240 comments Hardware & Electronics details

12

Responsible stewardship of the UEFI Secure Boot ecosystem

2022383 points276 comments Security & Privacy details

13

Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think

2022377 points464 comments Systems & Performance details

14

Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems

2016367 points235 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details

15

Hacker News is a social echo chamber

2013339 points194 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details

16

Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed

2016334 points154 commentscited by 8Hardware & Electronics details

17

We need better support for SSH host certificates

2023325 points156 comments Security & Privacy details

18

Investigating a Forged PDF

2025319 points55 comments Security & Privacy details

19

The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy

2022303 points115 comments Security & Privacy details

20

PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function

2023275 points186 comments Security & Privacy details

21

I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to

2016270 points84 comments Hardware & Electronics details

22

Why ACPI?

2023266 points96 comments Systems & Performance details

23

Producing a trustworthy x86-based Linux appliance

2021236 points138 comments Security & Privacy details

24

Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

2025228 points205 comments Security & Privacy details

25

Secure Boot isn't the only problem facing Linux on Windows 8 hardware

2013227 points167 comments Security & Privacy details

26

Intel's Remote AMT Vulnerability

2017222 points33 commentscited by 7Security & Privacy details

27

End-to-end encrypted messages need more than libsignal

2022218 points113 comments Security & Privacy details

28

Digital forgeries are hard

2024213 points97 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

29

The desktop and the developer

2014199 points301 comments Software Engineering details

30

Linux Kernel Lockdown and UEFI Secure Boot

2018197 points129 comments Security & Privacy details