What. A. Week.
I've been in San Fran meeting with a whole bunch of potential purchasers for HIBP and it's been... intense. Daunting. Exciting. It's actually an amazing feeling to see my "little" project come to this where I'm sitting in a room with some of the most awesome tech companies whilst flanked by bankers in suits. I try and give a bit of insight into that in this week's video, keeping in mind of course that I'm a bit limited by how much detail I can go into right now. As the process unfolds I'll share more, but hopefully this will give you a little taste of what I'm going through at present.
References
- Our password hashing has no clothes (SHA-1 as a password storage mechanism was pretty useless 7 years ago, yet here we still are)
- 38% of requests to the HIBP API are already using the authenticated V3 version (that was 44% when I checked it a day later)
- Password manager adoption rates are as low as 0.09% (so what does that tell you about how people are creating passwords?)
- Shape Security is sponsoring my blog this week (Captcha is no longer enough, they're talking about how Shape Connect blocks automation & improves security instantly, with a 30 minute implementation)