07 June 2024
After reviewing a segment from this week’s video, I coincidentally stumbled upon the part where I expressed my growing impatience with reiterating the same information repeatedly (around 46 minutes into the video). This aligns perfectly with how I intended to commence this post. Throughout the past 10 years of operating HIBP, there have been numerous breaches where individuals have requested access to data beyond just the email addresses. As mentioned in the video, I comprehend the curiosity surrounding the data. However, it can be frustrating when there is a reluctance to understand the infeasibility of such requests, for various sound reasons.
If you strongly believe that I should provide additional data and criticize me for not doing so, a simple action is available for you to take. You can simply act as if I had not included any information about the incident in HIBP. Essentially, this results in adopting an “ignorance is bliss” mentality, where your data exists out there but you choose not to acknowledge it. This awareness can also be achieved by unsubscribing from the HIBP notification service. Criticizing me for being unwilling to undertake significant additional burdens and risks while managing a service with minimal resources that the majority of users access for free is not reasonable. Alright, that feels more satisfying; here’s the video 🙂
References
- Sponsored by: 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
- It’s not too late to get your ticket to NDC Oslo next week! (opening keynote + 3D printing talk with Elle = MEGA WEEK!)
- The Ticketmaster / Santander / Snowflake drama is still unfolding (I’ll keep that thread updated as anything more substantial comes to light)
- Another 361M records from combolists scraped out of Telegram went into HIBP (most people who were notified about this were appreciative of the effort 🙄)
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