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vulnerability checker
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
2 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful tool that helped commenters check their devices
From 1 comment
You're doing fine, this guy is just bikeshedding. Thanks for the tool, it certainly helped me.
ephemeralgomi on HN
Objections
Red PATCH IMMEDIATELY warning is confusing when no OS X patch exists
From 2 comments
I get the red "PATCH IMMEDIATELY" in safari, where is the patch??? after a bit of research this looks like a good old UX fail since there is no patch yet anyways. Don't write…
nraynaud on HNYeah, if there's no path to a solution, the text should say "Your computer is correctly following the undesired behavior described in HT6147" in a soothing green color. ...
ephemeralgomi on HN
Shows vulnerable for browsers that are not actually affected, such as Ucbrowser on Lumia
From 1 comment
why does it say my browser is vulnerable? Using Ucbrowser on lumia.
anoncow on HN
Requests
Better stylesheet and copy for the page
From 1 comment
I would be totally happy to put a proper stylesheet and some better copy together if someone wants to send me that (put it in a gist maybe?)
cantfindmypass on HN
Questions
Why Apple released the iOS fix without an OS X fix
From 1 comment
Why the hell would Apple publish the vulnerability & fix for iOS without a concurrent update to OS X?!
ef4 on HN
Whether the bug was introduced in Mavericks or iOS 7
From 2 comments
OSX 10.8.4 fails correctly. Was this bug introduced with Mavericks?
oneplusone on HNCan anyone confirm this on an iOS 6 device? I don't have of those anymore. Good news is iPad running 5.1.1 is not affected, which almost leads me to believe this vuln was…
mirkules on HN
Alternatives named
agl's imperialviolet.org test page
From 1 comment
You can already do this here - https://www.imperialviolet.org:1266/ On OSX Firefox and Chrome fail and Safari happily loads it. Yay for not using system crypto libraries.
bcl on HN
Little Snitch firewall to block traffic
From 1 comment
Using the program Little Snitch on OS X 10.8 now to block everything except Firefox (recommended by u/ef4 here)- successfully helped Safari pass this browser test. Can anyone…
firstplanthendo on HN