Unwritten Record

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Library of Congress holds copyright deposit prints from several years of Universal Newsreels, including prints of releases which were destroyed in the 1978 fire. million feet of outtake footage dating from 1930-1950.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

And that's precisely what this 185th blog post tagging HIBP is - the noteworthy things of the years past, including a few things I've never discussed publicly before. Congress How on earth did I end up here?! 6 years and a few days ago now, I found myself in a place I'd only ever seen before in the movies: Congress.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. Things like tagging, others, they seem like a great idea at the time but later, maybe not so. So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

million records on US consumers (this started a series events which ultimately led to me testifying in front of Congress ), South Africa had data on everyone living in the country (and a bunch of deceased folks as well) leaked by a sloppy real estate agent and data from Australia's Medicare system was being sold to anyone able to come up with $30.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each).

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Videos of 2013-2019 House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) hearings unavailable from C-SPAN are now available for public viewing from a new web archive curated by California State University, Fullerton. On January 2, 2019–one day before the new session of Congress started–the front page of the HFAC site looked like this: [link].

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