Is this a clever way to harvest email addresses? :)
They should have instead used digest to store and transfer the email addresses.
Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
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#12I have a question...how big is the backend to this site? Its average response is about 100ms, which, to me, seems impressively fast considering the number of bulk records and the amount of concurrent traffic that such a site is getting. Besides the obvious indexing of the email field...anything special behind the curtains? Lots of machines? Something else besides a simple key lookup? Or am I just vastly overestimating how slowly a properly maintained DB will respond in such a situation?
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#13What about this one? http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/12/look-what-i-found-moar-po...
Re: Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach
#14I have a question...how big is the backend to this site? Its average response is about 100ms, which, to me, seems impressively fast considering the number of bulk records and the amount of concurrent traffic that such a site is getting. Besides the obvious indexing of the email field...anything special behind the curtains? Lots of machines? Something else besides a simple key lookup? Or am I just vastly overestimatin…
He discusses a little in the intro post[1], but indicates he'll be writing a technical detail post too.
[1] http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/12/introducing-have-i-been-pwne...
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#15I have a question...how big is the backend to this site? Its average response is about 100ms, which, to me, seems impressively fast considering the number of bulk records and the amount of concurrent traffic that such a site is getting. Besides the obvious indexing of the email field...anything special behind the curtains? Lots of machines? Something else besides a simple key lookup? Or am I just vastly overestimatin…
I think you are overestimating. This is not so large and unique key searches are blazing fast in pretty much any DB under the sun.
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#16LastPass has a similar service for some of the recent (and not so recent) hacks: * https://lastpass.com/adobe/ * https://lastpass.com/linkedin/ * https://lastpass.com/lastfm/ * https://lastpass.com/eharmony/
Thanks for that; I had ignored the Adobe leak, because why would I have created an Adobe account? Turns out I did at some point, so I guess I'm the goat there.
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#17Adobe got me.
Does lastpass work great for checking banking on cellphones and other logins that would require a cut and paste on a desktop?
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#18Adobe got me. Does lastpass work great for checking banking on cellphones and other logins that would require a cut and paste on a desktop?
They have a mobile site, and if you get the premium subscription ($12/year?) you can use their mobile apps - I use the iOS and Windows Phone apps and both are very smooth. (They also have Android and Blackberry).
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#19It’s a bummer to find my e-mail between the leaked Adobe accounts. Especially after the ordeal I had to go through to have my Adobe account “deleted” months ago:
You have requested that we deactivate your Adobe account. We have sent a request to the relevant team to process your request. Please note that you will lose access to Adobe services and support for which you have registered or paid for. You will not be able to obtain serial numbers for past purchases and the deactivation process may take up to ninety (90) days. Once completed, your adobe.com membership and all personal data will be deleted from our database.
Adobe, every single time I had anything to do with you it sucked. Big time.
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#20Who's to say these guys aren't stealing our emails?