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5M GMail breach – Online checker

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It's not a "breach": http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/cleaning-up...

Nor is that tool needed for any sort of audit so stop using it to harvest addresses.

Well, that's what they say. Given that it could hurt their image, I'd say there's a conflict of interest. But that may be farfetched.

We just put up this thing this afternoon internally and though we'd sugar coat it and share it with the world.

Lastly, thanks for the tip on how we shouldn't harvest emails. But this is not in our plans. We never (and never will) spam random people.

Disclaimer: In case you haven't figured out, I work there.

You actually think Google stores passwords in clear text and someone hacked them and grabbed 5M of them?!

Who said anything about plaintext?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

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