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Weekly Update 439

We're now eyeball-deep into the HIBP rebrand and UX work, totally overhauling the image of the service as we know it. That said, a guiding principle has been to ensure the new looks is immediately recognisable and over months of work, I think we've achieved that. I'm holding off sharing anything until we're far enough down the road that we're confident in the direction we're heading, and then I want to invite the masses to contribute as we head towards a (re)launch.

Whilst I didn't talk about it in this week's video, let me just recap on why we're doing this: the decisions made for a pet project nearly 12 years ago now are very different to the decisions made for a mainstream service with so many dependencies on it today. We're at a point where we need more professionalism and cohesion and that's across everything from the website design and content, the branding on our formal documentation, the stickers I hand out all over the place, the swag we want to make and even the signatures on our emails. Our task is to keep the heart and soul of a humble community-first project whilst simultaneously making sure it actually looks like we know what we're doing 🙂

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  2. Authorised access by DOGE employees is not a data breach (no, not even if you really, really, really don't like Donald and Elon)
  3. The HIBP rebrand is now a long way through, and we'd love to hear your ideas (it's not just the look and feel, I want to get a lot more functionality in there)
  4. The latest Zacks breach went into HIBP (that's right, this isn't their first rodeo)
  5. Apparently, our discussion about possibly banning resellers is newsworthy (and this isn't a done deal yet, we are also looking at the feasibility of automating away the pain)
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Hi, I'm Troy Hunt, I write this blog, create courses for Pluralsight and am a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP who travels the world speaking at events and training technology professionals