{"id":44241,"date":"2014-08-07T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/07\/on-those-billion-plus-stolen-passwords.html"},"modified":"2014-08-12T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:56:10","slug":"on-those-billion-plus-stolen-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/07\/on-those-billion-plus-stolen-passwords.html","title":{"rendered":"On those billion-plus stolen passwords"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bruce Schneier is more than skeptical, given that the information about the actual passwords is sparse, and the news was broken by a single company, which nobody's ever heard of, who's now charging a fee to have your security status monitored. \u00a0(The article and comments are both worth a read.)<\/p>\n

Yeah, this is sounding, in Schneier's words, "squrrelier and squrrelier."<\/p>\n

(h\/t +<\/span>Mary Oswell<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Schneier on Security: Over a Billion Passwords Stolen?<\/a>
\n Over a Billion Passwords Stolen? I’ve been doing way too many media interviews over this weird New York Times story that a Russian criminal gang has stolen over 1.2 billion passwords. As expected, the hype is pretty high over this. But from the beginning, the story didn’t make sense to me.\n <\/p>\n

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Bruce Schneier is more than skeptical, given that the information about the actual passwords is sparse, and the news was broken by a single company, which nobody's ever heard of, who's now charging a fee to have your security status monitored. \u00a0(The article and comments are both worth a read.) 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