Collaborate Disseminate
What an awesome response to the new brand! I’m so, so happy with all the feedback, and I’ve gotta be honest, I was nervous about how it would be received. The only negative theme that came through at all was our use of Sticker Mule, which
Designing the first logo for Have I Been Pwned was easy: I took a SQL injection pattern, wrote “have i been pwned?” after it and then, just to give it a touch of class, put a rectangle with rounded corners around it:
Job done! I mean really, what
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We survived the cyclone! That was a seriously weird week with lots of build-up to an event that last occurred before I was born. It’d been 50 years since a cyclone came this far south, and the media was full of alarming predictions of destruction. In the end,
I think I’ve finally caught my breath after dealing with those 23 billion rows of stealer logs last week. That was a bit intense, as is usually the way after any large incident goes into HIBP. But the confusing nature of stealer logs coupled with an overtly long
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Processing data breaches (especially big ones), can be extremely laborious. And, of course, everyone commenting on them is an expert, so there’s a heap of opinions out there. And so it was with the latest stealer logs, a corpus of data that took the better part of a
I like to start long blog posts with a tl;dr, so here it is:
We’ve ingested a corpus of 1.5TB worth of stealer logs known as “ALIEN TXTBASE” into Have I Been Pwned. They contain 23 billion rows with 493 million unique website and
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Wait – it’s Tuesday already?! When you listen to this week’s (ok, last week’s) video, you’ll probably get the sense I was a bit overloaded. Yeah, so that didn’t stop, and the stealer log processing and new feature building just
We’re now eyeball-deep into the HIBP rebrand and UX work, totally overhauling the image of the service as we know it. That said, a guiding principle has been to ensure the new looks is immediately recognisable and over months of work, I think we’ve achieved that.
I think what’s really scratching an itch for me with the home theatre thing is that it’s this whole geeky world of stuff that I always knew was out there, but I’d just never really understood. For example, I mentioned waveforming in the video,
It’s IoT time! We’re embarking on a very major home project (more detail of which is in the video), and some pretty big decisions need to be made about a very simple device: the light switch. I love having just about every light in our connected.