Keynote: Hack Your Way to the Top
summary
Have I Been Pwned aggregates 135 billion records from about 777 breaches and its Pwned Passwords API sees roughly 8.5 billion hits per month (TradingView alone calls it ~200k times/day); the service runs cheaply on commodity cloud storage. Home Assistant integrations use Zigbee temp sensors, Shelly relays and Sonos TTS with a YAML automation that speaks after 15s to close a cupboard — it works. A claimed 50M “Europe Car” leak turns out to be fabricated with PHP Faker string concatenation, not AI magic.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Conference opening
- 1:41Clarke’s internet vision
- 2:24Have I Been Pwned intro
- 3:48Pwned Passwords insights
- 5:12Leverage in software
- 6:16Community and NDC impact
- 7:59From hobbyist to speaker
- 9:27Community opportunities
- 10:29Coding with minimal resources
- 11:33Why software development beats piloting
- 13:57Meritocracy in tech
- 14:38Kids in tech innovators
- 15:41Have I Been Pwned success
- 17:46Early web projects lessons
- 18:50Passion for coding
- 19:51Home Assistant IoT
- 27:03Tech tooling leverage
- 29:35Tech magic email
- 29:56AI productivity creativity
- 31:45AI hallucinations trust
- 33:10AI tool not replacement
- 35:16GitHub Copilot boosts
- 35:37Debunking AI breach claims
- 39:53Closing gratitude
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