Weekly Update 284
A little late this week as the tail end of travel bites into my time, but it’s nice to be home again (albeit amidst a period of record rainfall). I’ll get back on a normal schedule next week but for now, here’s all the
Author Archives: Troy Hunt
I Wanna Go Fast: How Many Pwned Password Queries Can You Make Per Second?
I feel the need, the need for speed.
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough.
And so on and so forth. There’s a time and a place for going fast,
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Weekly Update 283
A super quick intro this week as I take a bit of time out before a hectic week. It’s hotel room quality audio this week, but that’s a temporary state before I’m back home next week. I hope you entry week 283, so much
Welcoming the New Zealand Government to Have I Been Pwned
Continuing the march forward to provide governments with better access to their departments’ data exposed in breaches, I’m very pleased to welcome the 28th national government onto Have I Been Pwned – New Zealand! They’ll join the other govs around the world that have complete
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How Everything We’re Told About Website Identity Assurance is Wrong
I have a vehement dislike for misleading advertising. We see it every day; weight loss pills, make money fast schemes and if you travel in the same circles I do, claims that extended validation (EV) certificates actually do something useful:
Why are you still claiming this @digicert? This is extremely
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Weekly Update 282
Just listening back to this now, I’m really happy with the Focusrite Scarlett Solo DAC that has replaced the old setup. Super simple, one of the cheapest of all the options and just works! Good times. The other thing of note as I put this video into a
Weekly Update 281
I feel like perfect audio remains an unsolved problem for me. Somehow, a low “hiss” has slipped in over the last couple of weeks and messing around trying to solve it before recording this video only served to leave me without any audio at all on the first
Weekly Update 280
Well, true to my opening dialogue, this was a monotopical weekly update (and yeah, apparently that’s a word). The Azure bill story got a huge amount of traction this week and there are many interesting angles to it that I didn’t fully cover in the original
How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs
I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of “the cloud”. I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could
Weekly Update 279
It’s mostly breaches this week and that’s mostly business as usual, except for one. I didn’t know whether I should speak about the one that frankly, upset me, but I felt it would be somewhat disingenuous not to. I couldn’t on the