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Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by AnonC »

As pointed out by samstave in a comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209348 :

You send an email to this service to post a blog entry, and this service exposes your name and email address (as obtained from the email headers) to everyone! That’s a huge privacy disconnect in a world where exposed emails can cause a lot of problems, and more so for non-technical people, which this service intends to make things easy for.

One look at the homepage of this service shows all the email addresses used by the users to post. Since the service also claims (in another comment here) that spoofed email addresses won’t work, users must use a non-personal address and name if they don’t wish to expose their information publicly.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by hacker256 »

AnonC wrote: post #21

As pointed out by samstave in a comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23209348 : You send an email to this service to post a blog entry, and this service exposes your name and email address (as obtained from the email headers) to everyone! That’s a huge privacy disconnect in a world where exposed emails can cause a lot of problems, and more so for non-technical people, which this service intends to make thi…

This site isn't an anonymous posting forum. If you want to be anonymous you can use an anonymous e-mail account, but for everyone else it's to speak with your name and your voice.

What you're looking for is a different service with different goals, and that doesn't make this one worse at what it is trying to do.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by plibither8 »

hacker256 wrote: post #7
MaxLeiter wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a great idea. I think it would be a lot nicer to read without the typing animation for blog text. It seems like a fast site - show that off!

Thank you! The animation site was actually just to show that you could attach a javascript file and embed it in your e-mail! https://hackerspring.com/p/protonmail.com/hackerspring/5ec06... Is an example without the javascript!

But... why? Giving a user complete control over JS code that will run directly off the site is inherently an unsafe idea, for you and for the user.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by kart23 »

samstave wrote: post #13

There was a service a while back - I cant recall what it was - but it would send you a question via email asking what you did today and you would reply to it and it would keep a history... I cant recall what that was now though. I really like this though. --- Custom URLs? I am going to try this right now. What happens.... WAIT A MINUTE. HOL' UP. SOMETHIN AINT RIGHT. This exposes your email to anyone on Hackerspring.…

Spoof the from header and you're golden.

Re: Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required

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Post by chrismatheson »

andrefuchs wrote: post #18

This reminds me of a blogging by email service I used called Posterous. Loved it but got shut down after Twitter bought it.

I was just thinking the same. It was the first platform I actually used for quite a while.
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