Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web

• Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. If your name is Dave Jones they have to look around those broker sites for Dave Jones. If those sites were using hashes then they could use hashes too.

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  • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They could just look for names, then hash those names and compare them to your hashed name. So technically that don’t need to store your data, just hashes.

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m all for privacy but worrying about giving one of the most trustworthy companies around your name seems a bit much.

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      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Need a Moreno payment system

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• Steve@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The front page there is literally: “Give us your email, so we can find leaks of your email.” It’s exactly the same thing.

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  • Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are talking about the password lookup: haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

    But, it’s the same deal. You have to trust they are actually doing what they say. Mozilla uses haveibeenpwned for their basic Monitor service too.

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    • Nyfure@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair, you can check the code they run or just use the API.
      The hash is calculated locally, cut-off and then send, the server returns all hashes it found which start with your one and then you can check if yours in in the list locally.

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    • ambrosiaforest@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ah yes. type your password in here we totally wont steal it

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      • claudiop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Y’know that you can see the requests your browser makes, right? Mind putting in here a screenshot of HIBP uploading your password or any complete hash of it?

        Failing to provide that grants you the “talking shit out of ya ass” award.

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• admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, because you are asking the data broker to do something with your data that they possess. It is not possible for them to delete your data without knowing which are your data.

  The only alternative is fully banning this kind of data collection. Which would be nice, but isn't happening anytime soon.

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