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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by tomalpha on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:12AM (#16472506)
Troy is clearly very pro Cloudflare and Azure. I’m only familiar with them at a high level and it would be great to hear counterpoints to his praise and get (at least the impression of) a debate that encompasses their pros and cons.

+1 for being interested in expanding this

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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by StavrosK on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @06:27AM (#16472557)
Basically they add yet another layer of centralization and they're a MITM for all your traffic, so they're an easy target for surveillance. If only they weren't so convenient... I use their DNS service because it's top notch, but I also tend to enable their MITM service because their CDN nodes are super fast and require just a single toggle to enable. They read my far-future expires headers and just cache the content on the edge, no extra work needed.
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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by Daycrawler on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:34AM (#16472840)
Doesn't know about Cloudflare but as a Microsoft Regional Director he's certainly pro Azure.
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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by copper_think on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @07:45AM (#16472890)
Such a weird title; it makes me think he works for them, but he doesn't
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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by jwilk on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:09PM (#16476159)
https://www.troyhunt.com/microsoft-regional-director/
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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by ptman on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:02AM (#16473373)
didn't he work for microsoft previously?
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Re:Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick by sghi on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:17AM (#16473492)
No, he worked for Pfizer - https://www.troyhunt.com/today-marks-two-important-milestone...
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