Welcoming CERN to Have I Been Pwned

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It’s hard to explain the significance of CERN. It’s the birthplace of the World Wide Web and the home of the largest machine ever built, the Large Hadron Collider. The bit that’s hard to explain is, well, I mean, look at it!

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Weekly Update 471

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I’m so happy to finally be getting those HIBP demos out! The first couple are simple, but as I say in this week’s vid, it’s the simple questions we’re still dealing with. As if to taunt me (or prove my point), we

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HIBP Demo: Querying the API, and the Free Test Key!

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One of the most common use cases for HIBP’s API is querying by email address, and we support hundreds of millions of searches against this endpoint every month. Loads of organisations use this service to understand the exposure of their customers and provide them with better protection against

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Weekly Update 470

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Imagine jumping on board a class action after your precious datas have been breached, then sticking through it all the way until a settlement is reached. Then, finally, after a long and arduous battle, cashing in and getting… $1. Well, kinda $1, the ParkMobile class action granted up to $1

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Have I Been Pwned Demos Are Now Live!

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Well, one of them is, but what’s important is that we now have a platform on which we can start pushing out a lot more. It’s not that HIBP is a particularly complex system that needs explaining in any depth, but we still get a lot

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Weekly Update 469

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So I had this idea around training a text-to-speech engine with my voice, then using that to speak over the Sonos at home to announce AI-driven events, such as people ringing the doorbell. A few hours’ worth of video from these weekly updates fed into ElevenLabs and wammo! Here

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Weekly Update 468

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I only just realised, as I prepared this accompanying blog post, that I didn’t talk about one of the points in the overview: food. One of my fondest memories as a child living in Singapore and now as an adult visiting there is the food. It’s

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Home Assistant + Ubiquiti + AI = Home Automation Magic

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It seems like every manufacturer of anything electrical that goes in the house wants to be part of the IoT story these days. Further, they all want their own app, which means you have to go to gazillions of bespoke software products to control your things. And they’re

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Weekly Update 466

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I’m fascinated by the unwillingness of organisations to name the “third party” to which they’ve attributed a breach. The initial reporting on the Allianz Life incident from last month makes no mention whatsoever of Salesforce, nor does any other statement I can find from

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