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acorn221
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First DEF CON, first conference talk and I loved it.
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Comment #48825638
This is my extension, I made it because I hate the UX of PGP. It uses passkeys (or passwords) to encrypt all keys (public and private) at rest so your contacts can't get leaked eas…
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Show HN: Chrome Extension Scanners, Spin AI vs. Am I Being Pwned
This is a blog post I wrote comparing the scanning results with our own solution vs SpinAI. Multipassword going up in risk after they fixed a vulnerability was my favourite find.
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Comment #47620348
ik lol, I was too lazy to change it
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Comment #47619620
I thought I’d check to see whether or not they actually read what they were adding lol
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Comment #47618630
If you want to go check for it, open linkedin on Chrome, open dev tools -> network tab -> magnifying glass at the top then search for "epstein" and you'll see it!
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Comment #47615759
Yeah I mean it's not very commonly used by extensions. I quite like it as it's completely isolated and not detectable. I built my first extension which uses it as the primary inter…
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Comment #47614576
Yeah I agree. All new extensions should have this for their web_accessible_resources. With that said, the chrome web store ecosystem has bigger problems infront of them. For exampl…
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Comment #47614465
Yeah, this is the easiest way to get around it
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Comment #47614457
So these extensions allow linkedin to do this though, it's literally them saying "yes, this site can ping this resource" - called "web_accessible_resources". This is fair from Link…
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Comment #47614361
They have! It's these developers either not knowing or not caring about it which is the issue! I did a blog post about this a while back showing how they do it, and how you can get…
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Comment #47614343
Yeah I agree
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Comment #47614320
This gave someone the opportunity to add in "Jeffery_Epstein_did_not_kill_himself" to linkedin's client facing code base through this. If you open dev tools -> network tab -> netwo…