Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
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Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#2Troy is an awesome guy and I’m really happy that HIBP is outgrowing him to get more support, datasets, and features.
I hope Have I Been Pwned goes to the right people and they do an even better job at moving it forward! Kudos Troy
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#3It's a shame as this is likely to mean that we end up with a worse service, but completely understandable. hopefully, I will be proven wrong
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#4I wish you luck, Troy!
Just don't sell it to some data mining/ad company.
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#5I'd love to see a non-profit organisation like Mozilla pick this up, but that's obviously going to mean a lot less money going to Troy.
OTOH, it's kind of difficult to begrudge Troy gaining financially from HIBP, since he's spent years building it up and has helped increase security awareness for so many people.
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#6This is really public utility work and should be treated like it instead of a for-profit project. Many thanks to Troy for his hard work over the years for making the internet a safer place.
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#7tl;dr
He's realised he's the single point of failure, can't do it all himself, wants to balance work & family. Doesn't want the work/cost of hiring people and making a business.
So, he's preparing to sell it and there's a wishlist of what he'd like the new owner to do.
Did I get it all?
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#8I cannot say enough praises of Troy and HIBP. But it is a risky operation.
I understand HIBP derives its value from grey-ish hats sharing with Troy any leaked dataset they find because they know him or because of his reputation.
If he leaves, it is not clear to me that his trust and reputation will stay behind with the company running HIBP. The minute HIBP ceases to be the central place for these new datasets to be shared, it ceases to be of any practical use.
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#9I'd love to see a non-profit organisation like Mozilla pick this up, but that's obviously going to mean a lot less money going to Troy. OTOH, it's kind of difficult to begrudge Troy gaining financially from HIBP, since he's spent years building it up and has helped increase security awareness for so many people.
Given Mozilla's current direction in terms of looking for more revenue streams, it might be quite well timed - if it can be commercialized successfully on the B2B end, that is.
https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=&to=en&a=https://t3n.d...
Re: Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
#10I'd love to see a non-profit organisation like Mozilla pick this up, but that's obviously going to mean a lot less money going to Troy. OTOH, it's kind of difficult to begrudge Troy gaining financially from HIBP, since he's spent years building it up and has helped increase security awareness for so many people.
Given Mozilla's current direction in terms of looking for more revenue streams, it might be quite well timed - if it can be commercialized successfully on the B2B end, that is. https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=&to=en&a=https://t3n.d...
Mozilla also recently launched their own version of HIBP that just gets the data from HIBP and passes it to their users: https://monitor.firefox.com/
Though just realised, they're not that upfront about giving HIBP credit - If I were Troy this would peeve me a bit.