• Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data.
  • The service is priced at $8.99 per month and is an extension of the free dark web monitoring service Mozilla Monitor (previously Firefox Monitor).
  • Basic Monitor members receive a free scan and one-time removal sweep, while Plus members get continual monthly data broker scans and removal attempts.

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    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      No. If your name is Dave Jones they have to look around those broker sites for Dave Jones. If those sites were using hashes then they could use hashes too.

      This is no different than any credit or identity monitoring service. The need to give them basic information should be obvious, people have to decide if the company is trustworthy or not.

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        8 months ago

        They could just look for names, then hash those names and compare them to your hashed name. So technically that don’t need to store your data, just hashes.

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          8 months ago

          I’m all for privacy but worrying about giving one of the most trustworthy companies around your name seems a bit much.

          You’d also have to give them your card details to pay for it.

          This would also require searching and indexing the entire system as opposed to searching it.

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      8 months ago

      The front page there is literally: “Give us your email, so we can find leaks of your email.” It’s exactly the same thing.

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          To be fair, you can check the code they run or just use the API.
          The hash is calculated locally, cut-off and then send, the server returns all hashes it found which start with your one and then you can check if yours in in the list locally.

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            8 months ago

            Y’know that you can see the requests your browser makes, right? Mind putting in here a screenshot of HIBP uploading your password or any complete hash of it?

            Failing to provide that grants you the “talking shit out of ya ass” award.

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      8 months ago

      No, because you are asking the data broker to do something with your data that they possess. It is not possible for them to delete your data without knowing which are your data.

      The only alternative is fully banning this kind of data collection. Which would be nice, but isn’t happening anytime soon.