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Re:Better password protections in Chrome by OliverJones on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:38AM (#21762183)
Seems to me Troy Hunt (the independent developer of https://HaveIbeenPwned.com/) and Cloudflare's Junade Ali deserve at least a mention in the Google announcement. They're pioneers of this database of pwned passwords and the ability to look up candidate passwords securely.

https://HaveIbeenPwned.com/

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords

https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-v...

Mr. Hunt personally paid to operate these services for quite a few years. Then he got sponsorship from 1Password to defray the server costs.

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Re:Better password protections in Chrome by Ajedi32 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:20AM (#21762527)
I suppose you could give Troy Hunt credit for popularizing the idea of anonymously checking for breached credentials, but Google doesn't use HaveIBeenPwned's database, nor is their method for checking for exposed passwords quite the same.
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Re:Better password protections in Chrome by dhdhebsb on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @09:21AM (#21762540)
I’m happy to see this comment. I guess I don’t really care if Google wants to succumb to NIH syndrome and build this themselves, but they should at least acknowledge the person whose idea they are repackaging.
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Re:Better password protections in Chrome by greggman2 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @10:33AM (#21763332)
Why? Did Apple acknowledge all the PDAs that came before iPhone? Did Spotify acknowledge subscription music services like Rhapsody from 2003? Did Flickr mention Smugmug?
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