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Firefox Monitor Will Inform You of Data Breaches (venturebeat.com)
Earlier this year, Mozilla announced Firefox Monitor, a service that will inform you if your online accounts were hacked in a recent data breach. It's now available to general public. A report adds: For the new security-focused tool, Mozilla partnered with Troy Hunt, the renowned security expert behind Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), which is a database of data breaches that allows anyone to discover whether one of their online accounts has been compromised. The first iteration of Firefox Monitor is, for all intents and purposes, a clone of HIBP. After you enter your email address and hit the scan button, you're told which online services have leaked your personal details (if any). You can also sign up to be notified of any future data breaches involving one or more of your email addresses.
The Google tentacles tighten.
Try Have I Been Pwned website to check your email address against known data breaches.
Troy and his site are good.
Probably by a disgruntled XUL extension developer.
Person != Person's email address. So no, you havent been "powned" . Information isn't real. Now, if I punch you in the face or take a shit on you, thats easy to verify, you will feel the impact or wonder what the crap is running down your head
I feel like this is a trap like: "Yes, we just pwned your PC" or "no, but you're about to be spammed."
If you make a browser, just have it...browse! Stop trying to make it do everything. Please. Give me lean, fast, and extension capability.
All your all-you-can-buffets are belong to creimer.
Here is what is much worse than laziness alone; some people are lazy and stupid
For example, take creimer and his stupid and dead youtube channel that was supposed to be his long tail revenue stream for his retirement.
He has been told several times that he should finish his certifications instead but he is too lazy to do that and he finds it easier to post stupid stuff on YouTube.
Since nobody watches his stupid stuff. He decided to publish a border line kid video that he filmed himself. Then he posted in various forums, faking outrage to bring views to his channel arguing with himself with different sock puppets names.
Here is basically what it looked like:
creimer wrote:
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Have you seen creimer's children band video [youtu.be]? Holy shit! That video got hundreds of view [twitter.com] with 95% coming from outside of the United States and the top three nations are well known for sex tourism. It doesn't surprise me that Slashdot has so many pedobears.
and:
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No. Thanks to YOU for calling me a pedophile. It has become my best performing video in the first 24 hours to date. All those views came from OUTSIDE the United States. Ukraine being 11% of the total.
and:
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Thanks to your Pedobear buddies, I got 25 hours of watch time in three days and coming in second to my Slashdot video with 30 hours of watch time in six months. Keep up the good work!
So basically creimer, you are bragging about providing video material to pedophiles and sex tourists and you do not see any problems with it as long as it brings views to your youtube channel.
Poor Chris, sad, very sad...
How long will it be before you do the right thing and take that video off line?
update: see creimer's replies here:
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So far, this looks to me like something that happened with me once. The Firefox team liked the site and liked the idea of working together somehow. But then nobody really had a great idea of *how* they could work together in a way that really adds value. After the excitement of the idea of working together, what was left was how browsers work with web sites - they display them.
After I read a book called Zero Bugs and Program Faster, I really liked what the author was doing. It aligns with my mission to improve the reliability and quality of software everywhere by teaching programmers how to make more reliable software. I emailed the author, Kate Thompson, telling her I enjoyed the book and "we should work together on something sometime". She replied "play how? Work on what?" Um, I don't know. :)
I think some political ideas are like that. They sound great on a bumper sticker. Then when you try to actually put them into action, to decide exactly what to do and how to do it, it turns out the phrase is only good for a bumper sticker, there is no actual policy that makes any sense to do there. I ran into that the other day when someone knocked on my door to pitch the Democrat candidate running for the House in my district. She mentioned a couple bumper sticker slogans, so I asked "cool, what exactly do you mean by ____?â She had zero answers, no policy ideas, just a bumper sticker that sounded good until you ask what it means.
The only entrapment is not knowing. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Pwn... You could just manually browse this list if you are really that paranoid though.
Ever since they forced that read later crap and no keywords in BMs...i think Vivaldi is the better option
The only hope in browser world. First, remove javascript checkbox, Then, EZ-DRM interface for the IP maximalism predators. Then pocket. Now, selling snake oil.
We'll have to search that industry mole whithin the organization and chase it out.
(Captcha: "restart". How appropriate)
Where is the information about the Equifax Breach? This is far more troubling than Last.fm, Disqus, LinkedIn, etc. How the Equifax corruption is permitted to stand by the American people is beyond me.
Once again, an excellent idea that should be a plugin (arguably pre-installed on new installs).
The whole password store, and even form-filling feature should be a plugin. In my case, Dashlane does all of that stuff (including the Have I been Pwned thing, so I don't need Firefox doing it. It would be rather good to be able to remove all that code from the running browser by removing the plugin.