Is it just me or have the number of announcements on HN about password leaks gone up in the last few weeks?
I think availability bias is kicking in, with each additional announcement, more links about announcements are posted (for karma) or more sites feel like they can announce, under the cover of larger leaks, that they themselves have been compromised.
It seems to me that there have been a few more lately than usual. I'm all for it though; the only way sites are going to start treating passwords responsibly is if they're embarrassed into doing it.
Not just the last few weeks, the last few days. I was already drawing that conclusion before this disclosure, and internally speculating that the same group or person might be responsible.
I think availability bias is kicking in, with each additional announcement, more links about announcements are posted (for karma) or more sites feel like they can announce, under the cover of larger leaks, that they themselves have been compromised.
Probably just me.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic