[HN Gopher] Seized Genesis Market data is now searchable in Have...
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       Seized Genesis Market data is now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
        
       Author : 2bluesc
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2023-04-05 16:36 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.troyhunt.com)
        
       | jmclnx wrote:
       | Looks like they changed how the data is downloaded. Now you need
       | to use a software package that requires NET6. That is a no-go for
       | me. So seems a Microsoft system is needed:
       | 
       | https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader
       | 
       | Does anyone have a link or knows of a non-NET tool to download
       | this new data ?
        
         | agentwiggles wrote:
         | While I share your annoyance at needing dotnet on my system,
         | since I don't use it, dotnet has been cross platform for quite
         | some time. You don't need a Windows box to run this code.
        
           | TylerE wrote:
           | Actually, you probably do since it has imports from
           | Microsoft.Win32
        
             | debugnik wrote:
             | Only for SafeFileHandle, which is actually portable and
             | usable for random-access IO since .NET 6. The namespace is
             | historical.
        
           | jmclnx wrote:
           | I am on a system that does not support NET at all, so right
           | now I am SOL :)
        
             | Krutonium wrote:
             | Are you on BSD?
        
               | crazysim wrote:
               | Even BSD has a Linux compat layer right?
        
               | jmclnx wrote:
               | Not OpenBSD :)
               | 
               | https://www.infoworld.com/article/3099038/openbsd-60-tigh
               | ten...
        
               | crazysim wrote:
               | Hah, I see. Yeah, that would do it.
        
               | TylerE wrote:
               | Yes.
        
         | Caligatio wrote:
         | Looks like someone made a bash script:
         | https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader/i...
        
         | bobsmooth wrote:
         | Just fire up a VM if you need Windows.
        
         | infotogivenm wrote:
         | That is irritating. I'm not even sure which is worse; having to
         | install an enormous and bloated runtime in order to download a
         | group of files over HTTP, or forcing me to make 64 _thousand_
         | HTTP requests in order to download a single dataset.
        
       | overthrow wrote:
       | Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35445867
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Thanks! Macroexpanded:
         | 
         |  _FBI seizes bot shop 'Genesis Market' amid arrests targeting
         | operators, suppliers_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35445867 - April 2023 (118
         | comments)
        
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