New tool safely checks your passwords against a half-billion pwned passwords

Funny coincidence you should mention that. Same thing.

My ISP throttles from roughly 5 PM EST until Midnight. Horrid service reaches it's worse at 10PM EST.

On downloads I see 4-10 Kb-s which is useless. The D/L's always give up the ghost and time out after some seconds/minutes.

Most peeps are snugged in bed after midnight. Grrrr. I aim to drive over to them and ask why im not getting the terms agreed to during that period. UGH

 

I was thinking of ordinary users who don't necessarily use VPN or other measures to obscure ip. I think I'll take on your minimalist namesake here . Less is definitely more.

 

Mine is patchy like this as well. It's a royal pain. I plan to get onto them about it as well - fully expecting the passing of the buck.

 

Yes I thought that too so I only checked a few old passwords I no longer use.

 

That's encrypted with 7-Zip.

The actual file is 31.6 GB...

 

Hah ha. No wonder. I started the download but the ETA was way too off the charts for what feeble bandwidth is distributed to my section of the masses.

Sure though however I could pull that whole base at a library where speeds are infinitely better than my own services.

It is IMO worth the extra trip and effort.

 

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-why-searching-through-500m-pwned-passwords-is-so-quick/

 

2 passwords I tried were OK, but if you use randomly generated longish passwords and different passwords for each site you shouln't have too much to worry about, right?

 

Yes that and the good thing about generated passwords its easy to change them regularly.

 

Okta’s PassProtect checks your passwords with ‘Have I Been Pwned’
May 23, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/oktas-passprotect-checks-your-passwords-with-have-i-been-pwned/

Related:
Chrome plug-in tells you when hackers have your password
And yes, it does have a system to avoid leaking your password itself.
May 23, 2018
https://www.cnet.com/news/chrome-plug-in-tells-when-hackers-have-your-password-okta/

 

But is this really a good idea, an extension that is monitoring typed passwords?

 

Spybot Identity Monitor
Website

Review:
A look at Spybot Identity Monitor for Windows
October 29, 2018
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/10/29/a-look-at-spybot-identity-monitor-for-windows/

 

New monitoring tool checks the dark web for stolen credentials
November 01, 2018
https://betanews.com/2018/11/01/monitoring-dark-web-stolen-credentials/

Introducing BreachWatch by Keeper
https://keepersecurity.com/blog/2018/10/29/introducing-keeper-breachwatch/

 

At what point does this list get long enough that using it would be no more effective than just guessing?

 

Assume each 10,000,000,000 users all have 1,000 diff pwds (none of them overlaps) and all of them are now included in the list. It's still less than 0.15% of 1-8 char pwds made from printable ASCII char.
So, practically, the answer is "never".

 

Interesting tool, will check it out.