Well that all changed very quickly. One week ago, I was like "I'm going to do this video from somewhere really epic next week". A few hours after that video, the host of the drinks we'd gone to over the road the day before told us she had symptoms. Another few hours later and she's COVID positive. A few days after that and Charlotte is positive too. Then, after 5 days isolating in the master bedroom at home, she's negative. That was weird. It's all weird, not just for us but for everyone at the...

2021 Dumpster fire? Harsh, but fair and I shall keep this 3D-printed reminder handy and hope I don't end up needing to print a 2022 version! So many times throughout this week's video I came back to that theme... But hey, there was some positive stuff too, not least the bits about some of the wonderful organisations I've worked with this year, bought products from or otherwise just been a big part of my digital life in 2021. Thanks everyone for tuning in this year, back soon 😊 [https://itunes....

I'd say this is probably the most epic scene I've ever done one of these videos from and equally, the main topic of the day around Pwned Passwords and the work done with the FBI and NCA is the most epic thing I've done for a very long time. On reflection, I feel like this is the first major step towards HIBP growing up and becoming self-sufficient; that Pwned Passwords piece is now owned by the community, supported by the community, contributed to by 2 of the world's foremost law enforcement age...

In the last month, there were 1,260,000,000 occasions where a service somewhere checked a password against Have I Been Pwned's (HIBP's) Pwned Password API [https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords]. 99.7% of the time, that check went no further than one of hundreds of Cloudflare edge nodes [https://www.cloudflare.com/network/] spread around the world (95% of the world's population is within 50ms of one). It looks like this: There are all sorts of amazing Pwned Passwords use cases out there. For e...

As I start out by saying this week's video, it's very summer here and not a day goes by without multiple pool visits. Next week's video is going to be from somewhere epically amazing out of this world that I've wanted to go to for a long time now so stay tuned for that one as I go mobile again. Somehow, today's video stretched out beyond an hour with what felt like a list of pretty minor discussion points, but plenty of good questions and commentary along the way. I hope you enjoy these more con...

A decade and a bit ago during my tenure at Pfizer, a colleague's laptop containing information about customers, healthcare providers and other vendors was stolen from their car [https://www.doj.nh.gov/consumer/security-breaches/documents/pfizer-20110610.pdf] . The machine had full disk encryption and it's not known whether the thief was ever actually able to access the data. It's not clear if the car was locked or not. Is this a data breach? Some years later, an outsourcing provider of the Aus...

Geez, I'm a bit orange today! I think mucking around with the (excepti0nally cool!) moon lamp towards the beginning of this video threw the colours off a bit. In the past, I'd turn on the auto white balance lock and things would stay steady, but since I put up the Elgato key lamps and the colour has been so steady, I've kind of just let it go. Lesson learned. Plenty of other good things this week though, next week I'll aim to live stream this at the beginning of the day and catch audiences on th...

I was having a coffee with a good mate the other day. He's not a techie (he runs a pizza restaurant), but somehow, we ended up talking about passwords. Because he's a normal person, he has the same 1 or 2 or 3 he uses everywhere and even without telling me what they were, I knew they were terrible. Actually, I'll rephrase that: because he was a normal guy; he's not normal anymore because yesterday I carved out some time to give him an early Christmas present: > Today I spent an hour getting a m...

Check out that lighting! The Elgato Key Lights have made a massive difference and they're easily controlled via their Stream Deck or the Home Assistant integration. I'm just super, super happy with these and after posting this video, I've fixed them directly to the wall using their Multi Mount System so it's now clean desk and clean line of sight between that and the screens. More tweaking to be done and more work to be done on the office, but it's all coming together very nicely now 😎 [https:...

It's been a busy week with lots of little bits and pieces demanding my attention. Coding, IoT'ing, 3D printing and a milestone academic event for Ari: > Primary school - done! pic.twitter.com/IvUt6lBJRr [https://t.co/IvUt6lBJRr] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 24, 2021 [https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1463600036042870787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] No major things in this weeks update, but plenty of things on all the above topics and more. Next week we're taking a short holiday then I'll be back...