I do like the idea behind Have I Been Pwned, and honestly if a government took it over that might be nice if we had some guarantees. It feels like something that ought to be a public service with super duper special oversight to avoid it being used by law enforcement(since sending any information is necessarily bad)
Most people don't trust their government enough to run a service like this. For example, my government lets bridges collapse[0], and it can barely keep the roads paved. The fact that any government service works at all is nothing short of a miracle to me.
Ehhhh, which government? Why would you want to build 200+ separate services for this? Would the US government report to a french citizen? Would we have two separate services from France/US?
I agree public services are great but let governments focus on more critical services.
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I do like the idea behind Have I Been Pwned, and honestly if a government took it over that might be nice if we had some guarantees. It feels like something that ought to be a public service with super duper special oversight to avoid it being used by law enforcement(since sending any information is necessarily bad)
Most people don't trust their government enough to run a service like this. For example, my government lets bridges collapse[0], and it can barely keep the roads paved. The fact that any government service works at all is nothing short of a miracle to me.
[0] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20240221.as...
What?
Ehhhh, which government? Why would you want to build 200+ separate services for this? Would the US government report to a french citizen? Would we have two separate services from France/US?
I agree public services are great but let governments focus on more critical services.