A couple of my colleagues now have a few Have I Been Pwned stickers. One wanted to stickerbomb some of their personal gear, and another I offered just because I could. That second colleague queried how I ended up with so many stickers in the first place, which reminded me…
It’s kind of amusing to think that what started as a kind of random, barely-paying-attention suggestion turning into Troy having one of those gear-turning moments, which ultimately resulted in making his life a hell of a lot easier, by the sounds of it, to revamp the HIBP Domain Search feature into a subscription service that, if memory serves correct, also ties the breach lookup API in on top of this. Did I mention that after initially reaching out a few days later to mention more thought went into that idea, Troy and myself brainstormed the idea a little? (note in editing: …no i didn’t, otherwise i wouldn’t have pulled the post to add this)
There were some sane ideas:
And there were some more… let’s say chaotic (totally not plagiarising, even if accidental) ideas:
And then some more sane ideas:
In the end Troy (understandably) opted not to be sued.
And I’m only recalling this now. Over two months since that previously mentioned blog post went live. Maybe I should half pay attention when discussion is had about ideas more often…
😀
Leave a Reply