Open Source Pwned Passwords with FBI Feed and 225M New NCA Passwords is Now Live!

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In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned’s (HIBP’s) Pwned Password API. 99.7% of the time, that check went no further than one of hundreds of Cloudflare edge nodes spread

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Weekly Update 274

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As I start out by saying this week’s video, it’s very summer here and not a day goes by without multiple pool visits. Next week’s video is going to be from somewhere epically amazing out of this world that I’ve wanted to

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When is a Scrape a Breach?

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A decade and a bit ago during my tenure at Pfizer, a colleague’s laptop containing information about customers, healthcare providers and other vendors was stolen from their car. The machine had full disk encryption and it’s not known whether the thief was ever actually able to

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A Password Manager Isn’t Just for Christmas, It’s for Life (So Here’s 50% Off!)

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I was having a coffee with a good mate the other day. He’s not a techie (he runs a pizza restaurant), but somehow, we ended up talking about passwords. Because he’s a normal person, he has the same 1 or 2 or 3 he uses everywhere

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Weekly Update 272

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Check out that lighting! The Elgato Key Lights have made a massive difference and they’re easily controlled via their Stream Deck or the Home Assistant integration. I’m just super, super happy with these and after posting this video, I’ve fixed them directly to the

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Weekly Update 271

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It’s been a busy week with lots of little bits and pieces demanding my attention. Coding, IoT’ing, 3D printing and a milestone academic event for Ari:

No major things in this

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Weekly Update 270

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I’m outdoors! I’ve really wanted to get my mobile recording setup slick for some time now and after a bunch of mucking around with various mics (and a bit of “debugging in production” during this video), I’m finally really happy with it.

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Merry #pwnedmas!

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Like most of my good ideas, this one came completely by accident. The other day I was packaging up some swag to send to the winner of my impromptu best “Anonymous” meme competition and I decided to share the following tweet:

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