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Re:Show HN: Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stac... by bogwog on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:47PM (#20922311)
This just seems like a mailing list for CVE alerts for popular software. If you put in HN, it'll say that it failed to detect the stack, and then ask you to choose your software and then enter your email to receive alerts.

It's kind of clever marketing, giving people a sense that they're going to get a security audit in exchange for an email address.

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Re:Show HN: Enter your URL and view CVEs affecting your stac... by paulfurley on Monday September 09, 2019 @04:51PM (#20922341)
The first URL I entered (coop.co.uk) was actually pretty awesome, it detected Varnish and showed a critical CVE from last week. That’s cool.

I hope that if you subscribe, the site regularly rescans your stack and realised if it’s changed. Otherwise it’s just a mailing list subscription that becomes out of date and therefore not useful.

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