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Dead man's switches: how they work and when to use one(blog.alcazarsec.com)
4 points by alcazar 7mo ago|2 comments
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by alcazar 7mo ago
https://hn.alcazarsec.com/daily I'm also publishing a hackernews daily digest. This story was included in the March 9th issue ( https://hn.alcazarsec.com/daily?date=2026-03-09 ). Hacker News users ar
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Portable Secret is now open source(blog.alcazarsec.com)
1 points by alcazar 7mo ago|0 comments
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by alcazar 7mo ago
If we were to die as a company (unlikely), we would reach out to customers well in advance (think >1 year) and ask them to download their data so they could migrate to another provider. This seems unlikely, however, since our infrastruct
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by alcazar 7mo ago
Working on... - Portable Secret ( https://alcazarsec.github.io/portable-secret/ ) - self-contained HTML files that decrypt in the browser. - Dead Man's Switch ( https://alcazarsec.com/deadmanswitch )
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by alcazar 7mo ago
Same here. Unless a site is known for good quality, I only open articles after checking top comments. Most days I just read the daily digest of discussions - which sometimes piques my curiosity enough to check the original links.
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by alcazar 7mo ago
Yeah, I'm not sure most normal people use file systems that much. We spend ours on our laptops and assume others do too. But many people don't even own a laptop. They handle all their computing needs from their phones, using propr
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by alcazar 7mo ago
How do you automate hashing and verifying filenames? I have used rhash ( https://github.com/rhash/RHash ) before to do something similar - but with all the hashes for a directory stored in a single file (which I can diff
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by alcazar 7mo ago
Welcome to the Dead Man's Switch Founders Club. It's packed in here, but we all have fun ;)
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by alcazar 7mo ago
“There are no solutions, only trade-offs” - Thomas Sowell We would rather err on the side of not knowing about our customers. But it’s a choice that comes with consequences. As you mentioned, we mitigate this with: - Multi-channel verificat
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Anthropic and The Pentagon(schneier.com)
4 points by alcazar 7mo ago|0 comments
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Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs(github.com)
1 points by alcazar 8mo ago|0 comments
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Fast realtime updates without WebSockets(blog.alcazarsec.com)
1 points by alcazar 8mo ago|0 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
This summary is interesting because it includes top comments. Most insights come from the discussion. I do two separate summaries: one for the story (sometimes impossible if paywalled) and one for the comments. AMA about technical implement
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Top HN: Daily summary of the top Hacker News stories(hn.alcazarsec.com)
2 points by alcazar 8mo ago|1 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
Thanks! I didn't know about TypeID (and I thought I'd searched thoroughly). The formalization interests me. Shame they shifted the UUID 2 bits right. Otherwise our implementations would be almost compatible (only the last 2 bits o
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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005)(ranum.com)
3 points by alcazar 8mo ago|0 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
If you get to read this before it fades away from /new, I hope you enjoy it. I'm quite into entropy representation, and this is my best attempt at database IDs in REST APIs.
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Designing the Perfect ID: Marrying UUIDv7, Stripe Prefixes, and ULID(blog.alcazarsec.com)
2 points by alcazar 8mo ago|3 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
Interesting approach, but too complex for most people. Setup and retrieval (USB + email key + password) would be difficult. Many would likely lose access to their encrypted data forever. If you can coordinate people that well, a simpler dea
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How to Securely Erase an Old Hard Drive on macOS Tahoe(jeffgeerling.com)
3 points by alcazar 8mo ago|0 comments
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Reasons to get a dead man's switch(blog.alcazarsec.com)
2 points by alcazar 8mo ago|0 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
I would like to check it out, but I'm not willing to use a Google social login. If you offered anonymous signup (or email signup where I could use a burner address), I would have tried it. Not everyone is privacy-conscious, but a few o
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by alcazar 8mo ago
Paper and full wordlist: https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Research/blob/master/pa... Each word's first three letters must be a unique sequence (XXX-). Each word's last three letters m
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Bytewords – encoding bytes as one of 256 four-letter English words(developer.blockchaincommons.com)
1 points by alcazar 8mo ago|1 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
Thank you for your interest ;) I have posted a Show HN with the link to the tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168000 Source code: https://github.com/alcazarsec/portable-secret
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Show HN: Portable Secret – Open-Source HTML files that self-decrypt offline(alcazarsec.github.io)
5 points by alcazar 8mo ago|0 comments
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by alcazar 8mo ago
> We are currently experiencing a fault with UDP forwarding. Exactly right. From our logs, the main outage went from 21:01 to 21:10 UTC. EDIT: Also https://status.hetzner.com/incident/affecfea-fd04-41a1-a680-... (Fa
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by alcazar 8mo ago
It seems to be back up. I can access https://console.hetzner.com/ now, and our VPS are back online.
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Hetzner outage - UDP forwarding affected(statusgator.com)
11 points by alcazar 8mo ago|7 comments

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