Nearly four years ago now, I set out to write a book with Charlotte and RobIt was the stories behind the stories, the things that drove me to write my most important blog posts, and then the things that happened afterwards. It’s almost like a collection of meta posts, each one adding behind-the-scenes commentary that…
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Closer to the Edge: Hyperscaling Have I Been Pwned with Cloudflare Workers and Caching
I’ve spent more than a decade now writing about how to make Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) fast. Really fast. Fast to the extent that sometimes, it was even too fast: The response from each search was coming back so quickly that the user wasn’t sure if it was legitimately checking subsequent addresses they entered…
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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach
Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I’d seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for “7,000”, which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us. I started…