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EDUCATION · SECURITY

External Links, External Trouble

Every external link on your site is a piece of infrastructure you don't own and can't version-control. Here's how that surface area actually gets weaponized — and what's worth watching.

milouk
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EDUCATION · SECURITY

Link Rot: The Security Risk Nobody Talks About

A dead link is the moment your security perimeter gets handed to a stranger. The rate of decay and the cost of ignoring it are both higher than the discourse on this admits.

milouk
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EDUCATION · SECURITY

From the Ivory Tower, to Putting It All on Red

How a forgotten academic conference website got re-registered, repointed at Indonesian sportsbooks, and quietly turned the reputation of every paper that ever cited it into a backlink farm.

nnikiforakis
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EDUCATION · SECURITY

The Hidden Risk of Expired Domains: How External Links Can Turn Dangerous Over Time

A domain you linked to in good faith four years ago is a four-year option an attacker can exercise on you whenever they like. Here's what that actually looks like in the wild.

ligouras
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