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Have I Been Pwned 2.0
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#142Really impressive evolution of a crucial service. The architectural and UX improvements are well thought out, especially the focus on resilience and scalability. Love the transparency around the decision-making process, too-Troy’s commitment to keeping HIBP fast, free, and useful is a great example of public-interest software done right. The migration to .NET 8 and use of Cloudflare for caching shows how mature and modern the stack is becoming.
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#143He should partner with a law firm, for class action lawsuits, for every breach due to negligence (which is probably all of them). Tie in to a banking service, so you can do direct deposits to many millions of people, every time there's new settlements paid, and you'll be a folk hero. Get lawyers who want negligent companies to actually regret the breaches, with judgements that hurt. (Rather than a small settlement th…
Usually a breach results in a brief dip in a company's stock price, followed by a rally. Look at what happened after the Coinbase incident.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, he's not. https://www.troyhunt.com/about/ says "I don't work for Microsoft"
"Microsoft Regional Director" We can debate semantics but if you describe yourself with a job title attached to a company then I suggest that you have an association which looks rather like ... employment.
It's not a job title, it's some Microsoft program, like their MVP program.
The RD site linked from Troy's site isn't loading for me at the moment, but if you search "what is the microsoft regional director program" you get back information making it clear that it's not for MS Employees.
https://rd.microsoft.com/en-us/
> The Microsoft Regional Directors program recognizes industry professionals for their cross-platform technical expertise, community leadership, public speaking[...]
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#146Who has the record for being in the most breaches? My main email seems to currently be in 40 breaches, earliest one in from June 2011 (HackForums, don't even remember what that is), and last one in September 2024 (FrenchCitizens, although I'm not French nor have I ever lived in France).
Depressingly I’m at 51.
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#147He should partner with a law firm, for class action lawsuits, for every breach due to negligence (which is probably all of them). Tie in to a banking service, so you can do direct deposits to many millions of people, every time there's new settlements paid, and you'll be a folk hero. Get lawyers who want negligent companies to actually regret the breaches, with judgements that hurt. (Rather than a small settlement th…
Usually a breach results in a brief dip in a company's stock price, followed by a rally. Look at what happened after the Coinbase incident.
I bought croudstrike on “the day”. Just waited a few months and back up to pre destroying the world levels.
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#148Ok, one of my email addresses is in a bunch of leaks. What is interesting is that most services on this list I have never used. How did they get my email in the first place? What is the accuracy of that whole business?
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
The idea of fines as a revenue stream has never sat well with me. Fines are meant to be a disincentive. The ideal collection amount is zero. Treating them as a revenue stream creates a perverse incentive to enforce the penalty without disincentivizing the behavior.
This is literally what happened in Belgium when politicians did budget. A piece of the expected slice was traffic fines. So that means that any kind of system that would improve traffic other than repressive measures would cost them twice, once to fix the situation and again when they can issue less fines.
If I drive carelessly and get a meaningful fine, I'll think twice next time, irrespective of who gets the money. I only care that I am fined. Unless the police starts to administer fines when they shouldn't, all is good, right? What happened in Belgium?
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#150It's funny how you can find someone's interests just by typing his/her email address
The ultimate tracking tool