talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
TheSecurityTube · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2014–2018).
SignalTube analysis
Among 131 other talk videos tagged Security & hacking, the mean is 3.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 2.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
43% of its 7 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2018; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- TheSecurityTube
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2018
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Security & hacking. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)Current video | 3 | 3 | 43% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| DEF CON 25 - John Sotos - Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genometalk · DEFCONConference | 11 | 8 | 55% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?talk · USENIX | 10 | 10 | 50% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Behind the Scenes of iOS Securitytalk · Black Hat | 9 | 11 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones”. Its short rationale: History of the stripping attack that HSTS preloading prevents.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Broadening HSTS to secure more of the Web”. Its short rationale: Entertaining full talk on HTTPS attacks.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Broadening HSTS to secure more of the Web”. Its short rationale: Demonstrates the http-to-https redirect interception attack.