Have I Been Pwned, databasen med knäckta och läckta lösenord, kommer inte att säljas utan skaparen och grundaren Troy Hunt kommer att driva projektet vidare som en oberoende och fristående tjänst.
Troy Hunt hade inletts samtal med en stor mängd olika företag som var intresserade av att ta över och driva databasen/tjänsten vidare. en tjänst där du kan kontrollera dina lösenord – om de knäckts eller har läckt ut på nätet efter ett intrång, exempelvis.
We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post. As I’ve said throughout this process, the decision around who I wanted to entertain as a bidder for the service was always going to be mine and mine alone so I culled companies that I didn’t believe should have responsibility for the sort of data HIBP has, that wouldn’t shepherd the service in the direction I believed it should go or were simply companies that I didn’t want to work for. That last point is critical – it was repeated over and over again by every single organisation we discussed it with that a sale of HIBP was also a sale of me for many years to come. I would be an employee. I’d fly the company flag. I’d need to support their vision. That was only ever going to happen with a company that I wanted to devote many years of my life to. So, in late July I flew to San Francisco and spent a couple of weeks meeting with those 43 companies, KPMG guys in tow. It all felt a bit, well…
Troy Hunt upptäckte att av de 43 företag som han och KPMG valt att träffa så kunde en rätt betydande mängd av de han mötte vara kopierade från tv-serien Silicon Valley.
Seriously, I vividly remember after one early meeting on-premise with a tech company, walking out of the building with the KPMG guys laughing about how much it felt like an episode of Silicon Valley! Over and over again, we’d go to these meetings and sit across the table from characters that could have come straight out of the show. The Russ Hannemans, the Gavin Belsons, the Lori Breens and here’s me, feeling all Richard Hendricks. I hope I was a bit more articulate than Richard, but I was someone fronting up and presenting my pride and joy to strangers who I hoped would share the same enthusiasm for it that I did. I make the Silicon Valley comparison only partly tongue-in-cheek because it was absolutely uncanny how true the experiences tracked to the comedy.
För att göra en lång historia kort – det blev ingen försäljning.
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