# Troy Hunt: The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

<https://www.troyhunt.com/the-legitimisation-of-have-i-been-pwned/>

- Host: [troyhunt.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/troyhunt.com/)
- Saved: March 27, 2018 (2018-03-28T01:52:12Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/94233c45b7f0/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/94233c45b7f0.json

## What Jamie wrote

Interesting background from the creator of Have I Been Pwned that specifically talks about the very grey area that this service runs in, but how it has started to provide very real, valuable capability for people.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT47: Weekly Thing #47 / Mar 31, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/47/), Security

## Same host

- [Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d634e2687ebc/) (troyhunt.com, May 20, 2016)
- [The "Have I been pwned" API rate limit has been brought forward - here's why](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aeaa9caa5df8/) (troyhunt.com, September 5, 2016)
- [Troy Hunt: I've Just Launched "Pwned Passwords" V2 With Half a Billion Passwords for Download](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0a2a00101c85/) (troyhunt.com, February 22, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e2a16f70d31d/) (troyhunt.com, September 8, 2018)
- [Troy Hunt: The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9433422d224c/) (troyhunt.com, January 17, 2019)

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- [Heart Rate Variability (HRV): What is it, and why does the Apple Watch track it? | iMore](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4c6307ae57dd/) (imore.com, March 27, 2018)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.troyhunt.com/the-legitimisation-of-have-i-been-pwned/