[HN Gopher] A Decade of Have I Been Pwned
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       A Decade of Have I Been Pwned
        
       Author : LaSombra
       Score  : 111 points
       Date   : 2023-12-04 07:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.troyhunt.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.troyhunt.com)
        
       | ssss11 wrote:
       | 10 years?! Congrats
        
       | polonbike wrote:
       | Previous discussion here (150comments)
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519257
        
       | Pixie_Dust wrote:
       | It's like deja vu all over again.
        
       | lll-o-lll wrote:
       | A decade of "oh. I have been pwned".
        
       | hospitalJail wrote:
       | I remember having to send the link to my mother in law. I suppose
       | now that the event is all over, and it mostly affected my mother
       | in law, I can say 'good times'.
        
       | michaelcampbell wrote:
       | > You know why it's called "Have I Been Pwned"? Try coming up
       | with almost any conceivable normal sounding English name and
       | getting a .com domain for it. Good luck!
       | 
       | Maybe he's addressing a slightly different topic, but I remember
       | hearing/seeing "Pwned" long, LONG before this.
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       | I remember in the usenet/bbs days "pwn" was just a typo of "own"
       | given the "p" and "o" are next to each other on the qwerty
       | keyboard, and it stuck.
        
         | Thorrez wrote:
         | The article links to this[1] article which mentions pwn being
         | used on BBSes in the 80s.
         | 
         | https://www.inverse.com/gaming/pwned-meaning-definition-orig...
        
         | deaddodo wrote:
         | I think they mean more why it wasn't called something like
         | "haveibeenowned.com" or "hacked.com". Not that they invented
         | the term "pwned".
        
           | justneedaname wrote:
           | Yes, from the FAQs:
           | 
           |  _What does "pwned" mean? The word "pwned" has origins in
           | video game culture and is a leetspeak derivation of the word
           | "owned", due to the proximity of the "o" and "p" keys. It's
           | typically used to imply that someone has been controlled or
           | compromised, for example "I was pwned in the Adobe data
           | breach". Read more about how "pwned" went from hacker slang
           | to the internet's favourite taunt._
        
             | depletedgherkin wrote:
             | I think this website is the main place keeping the term
             | "pwned" alive haha. It's pretty much died out among Gen Z
        
       | russfink wrote:
       | What protects the privacy of queries to this service themselves?
        
       | heroprotagonist wrote:
       | Duplicate
        
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