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eBAF
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eBAF

You wouldnt Download an Ad. But you would block one.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
132GitHub stars
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What it is

You wouldnt Download an Ad. But you would block one.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-07-03 15:59:26 UTC to 2025-07-03 18:01:48 UTC.

012025-07-03 15:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-03 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJul 3, 15:002025-07-03 16:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-03 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 3, 16:002025-07-03 17:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-03 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-03 18:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-03 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 3, 18:00

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Jul 3, 15:002025-07-03 15:00:00 UTC2025-07-03 16:00:00 UTC110
Jul 3, 16:002025-07-03 16:00:00 UTC2025-07-03 17:00:00 UTC000
Jul 3, 17:002025-07-03 17:00:00 UTC2025-07-03 18:00:00 UTC000
Jul 3, 18:002025-07-03 18:00:00 UTC2025-07-03 19:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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After that hint, I thought I'd give the code a quick audit. The install script adds sudoers rules to allow ebaf executable to be run with no password[0] (and also to `pkill -P` any PPID). The ebaf executable checks the current directory by default, to look for the ebpf code to load[1]. So, running the install script this allows any ebpf code to be loaded into the kernel without a sudo password. You probably don't want this! (I'm pretty sure that'd be enough for a root LPE) Further, the ebaf executable writes logs to a file named `/tmp/ebaf-stats.dat` [2]. An unprivileged user could put a symlink here, causing the destination file to get clobbered. It also re-resolves all domain names every 600 seconds. Given that there are over a thousand domains listed, that's quite a lot of DNS traffic! [3] Also, the "web dashboard" claims to listen on
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In EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall

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