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Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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This appears to be running on port 4567, just FYI many firewalls won't allow nonstandard ports. Perhaps port forwarding or a DNAT rule could help you reach a larger audience?

Yeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally). So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random…

If you're studying security and you think TOR will work to get you past corporate firewalls... good luck out there. Keep studying.

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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try again, just had to update analytics code

Do you mean analytics or do you mean Analytics®? Edit: You mean Analytics ... so here's yet another site where $SomeBigCorp tracks what I do :/

Yep, you're feeding information right into Google's greedy hands about when your bananas are ripe.

Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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Do you mean analytics or do you mean Analytics®? Edit: You mean Analytics ... so here's yet another site where $SomeBigCorp tracks what I do :/

Yep, you're feeding information right into Google's greedy hands about when your bananas are ripe.

You joke, but seeing Amazon lately, that seems like the kind of things they would like to know.
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