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Looks like this doesn't include another feature of HaveIBeenPwned. Its cracked password hash database. If you trust their JavaScript, you can type in your passwords and see if they are on the list. If you're a little more paranoid you can download the hashes and do your own search.
Disclaimer: Monitor dev here ... Watch this space: https://github.com/mozilla/blurts-addon/issues/142 ;)
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I can’t think of a big tech device company that’s any less driven by money than apple. What makes them so unique, in your mind? In my experience I’ve had less unwanted tracking and advertising, and better support compared to other phone and laptop manufacturers I used to buy from.
Not everything needs to be a "big tech company", but you are right big tech companies are quite similar in this respect. At critical mass capitalism seems to cause companies to lose their driving principles that made them unique - their behaviour becomes more of a mindless ecology driven solely by money. Now look at Mozilla, it's a non profit, look at everything it does, they have never lost their principles. They wi…
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> I want to know who betrayed me. You can run your own email server (or have a company host a private domain for you), set up a catch-all address that only you know, then use a different email address for every site you sign up to. That way you can find out this sort of information. Using this technique, I know for example that spammers obtained the address I signed up to Stack Overflow with. The email is not shown o…
I do this with Fastmail, including specialized subdomains to help me segment the addresses and then distinct email names for each sign up as necessary. You can also do something similar with Gmail (and probably other providers) using "+" in your username, e.g. "myname+hackernews@gmail.com". This creates a unique email address that delivers to your Gmail account as if the "+ " were absent. This is more easily defeated…
Apparently MyFitnessPal had their data breached, and my email address/password was in it. Checking my emails, I can't see anything from them about this. Loads of the usual marketing crap, but nothing about a breach. Not cool!
Same, for me it was them and Apollo. I can't find anything about either of them in my mail, but both claim to have notified their customers. That's very suspicious. I don't delete anything... Perhaps it found its way into my spam and got auto-deleted (entirely possible with Apollo, seems very unlikely with MFP).
I really wish Firefox would focus, and I don't mean Firefox Focus. If they focused on making it simple, fast, and reliable, it would have a much better shot at taking market share from Chrome. On top of that, I wish everything on top of a browser was truly optional - that they didn't have reminders of sync spread throughout the app, and that they didn't have a Pocket button in the toolbar unless I logged in with Pock…
> If they focused on making it simple, fast, and reliable, it would have a much better shot at taking market share from Chrome. imho, they've already achieved this and have a great browser that's at least comparably-competent against Chrome. The battle Mozilla has with Firefox isn't in improving its tech specs, it's in winning over hearts and minds, and that's a complicated, somewhat costly game. (I say this as a lon…
Many try to switch and then some scandal happens, or it just seems as cluttered as any other browser, and they give up. I think the people who think Firefox Monitor is a good idea are probably the ones who thought the Mr. Robot promo was a good idea.
A good browser should stay out of the way. Chrome did for a long time. Having a "Save to Pocket" button in my toolbar is intrusive.
31 breaches on my Gmail account that I've had for close to 15 years. I'm actually surprised it's not more given how many sites/forums/services I've shared this with over the years.
I really wish Firefox would focus, and I don't mean Firefox Focus. If they focused on making it simple, fast, and reliable, it would have a much better shot at taking market share from Chrome. On top of that, I wish everything on top of a browser was truly optional - that they didn't have reminders of sync spread throughout the app, and that they didn't have a Pocket button in the toolbar unless I logged in with Pock…
Perhaps this is their focus. Not FF monitor, but privacy. Going up against/with Apple as a privacy-conscious alternative to Chrome etc. From that viewpoint, this is in line with that.
I bought extended car warranty from a company and they subsequently exposed my VIN, name and email on a publicly shared DB by accident, and its still up. I don't want to report this to them directly. Anyone know if I can report this to Firefox Monitor somehow?
He's behind Have I Been Pwned, and Firefox Monitor is an alternative interface for it. I believe he verifies the breaches by contacting a few people in a new breach that have already signed up for HIBP notifications.