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I am thoroughly confused. When I click on the link above, it takes me to an Electronic Frontier Foundation donation page. If I go to dzombak.com I get to the home page of Chris Dzombak. Then going to the blog, there is a blog post titled "Securing my personal SSH infrastructure with Yubikeys" which takes me to the article which I believe is the one posted, which appears to be identical to the link above. What the hell is going on???

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When you click a link, your browser sends the URL of the site where you clicked the link to the server that hosts the link you're clicking. This is called 'Referer' (sic)[0] and can be disabled in your browser [1].

Now, the owner of that blog set it up in a way that people coming fon HN (who send a Referer) are redirected. (Another user figured that out a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26078619 )

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

Looks like the author set up a redirect to EFF if you're coming from HN. It was showing the article for me earlier.

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