Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.
Are you reading it as if the Nepalese government had a data breach? Given the positive connotation of 'welcoming', I read it differently but I can see the confusion indeed
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#12Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.
Well Troy Hunt makes money off the back of your data being leaked so I expect nothing less.
I'm pretty certain that my data would be leaked regardless of him, so as far as objectionable businesses go, his is pretty low on my list of ones to be upset about
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#13Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.
Are you reading it as if the Nepalese government had a data breach? Given the positive connotation of 'welcoming', I read it differently but I can see the confusion indeed
I also read the title as a sardonic welcome (negative connotation). I was surprised to find out it was just a tiny puff piece of self-promotion.
Being “welcomed” to HIBP sounds a lot like being “welcomed” to the Bronx by a mugging.
I admit I do not follow HIBP and was unaware of this kind of outreach they do.
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#14Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.
Well Troy Hunt makes money off the back of your data being leaked so I expect nothing less.
In some sense companies that don't protect your data make money off the back of your data being leaked (in the sense that they saved money by not spending it on security)
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#15Is this the new government after the old one was violently overthrown last year?
Yes, this is the new government elected in March of this year after the old one was overthrown in September of last year.
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#16Is this the new government after the old one was violently overthrown last year?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well Troy Hunt makes money off the back of your data being leaked so I expect nothing less.
And police officers make a living off of crime; ambulance personnel wouldn't get paid if nobody got sick or injured. What's the point of that observation?
Police officers help for free.
If they find during an investigation that you're avictim of a crime they WILL tell you where they found the data and what was exactly in it.
Troy? He'll basically resell you your own stolen data, because that's the only way to know if the password leaked was 20 years or 1 month old, and to what services exactly. If you're leaked in infostealer dump, you'd learn from the police what was associated with your email in this dump, so you know to snort if it was only empty password store from your Firefox, or financial data exposing you to ruin.
Troy? Oh, he can tell you that too, but for a price. He'll sell you your personal data back.
(I've looked far and wide and there doesn't seem to be ANY way to list as much as the domains of the email/password dumps without paying for access to the API)
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#18I do like the idea behind Have I Been Pwned, and honestly if a government took it over that might be nice if we had some guarantees. It feels like something that ought to be a public service with super duper special oversight to avoid it being used by law enforcement(since sending any information is necessarily bad)
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#19I'm surprised they can get past the CF captcha, I still can't. Ever since the beginning: https://imgur.com/a/AzNSreV
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