Have I Been Pwned Code Base Is Going Open Source

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He’s planning to open the code base for the service.

Let me just cut straight to it: I’m going to open source the Have I Been Pwned code base. The decision has been a while coming and it took a failed M&A process to get here, but the code will be turned over to the public for the betterment of the project and frankly, for the betterment of everyone who uses it. Let me explain why and how.

A good move I think, the service is used extensively and the value of the service isn’t strictly in the code it’s self but in the data collection.

It’s worth noting that the data is not being released, just the code.

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It’s nice to see. I don’t see any forks coming.

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At leat no forks that provide anything useful for the public.

I expect we might see it used for private databases that don’t want to connect to HIBP

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We’ve been approached by a couple of these vendors offering commercial alternatives. They always tell us they have larger leak databases than Troy (:roll_eyes:), but they’re always functionally identical and want to charge us £50,000 a year.

Azure AD is well poised to eat this entire business model for the enterprise user at least.