known quantities don’t typically share ownership by percentage. certainly an early startup might offer %x equity, but once a quantity is known — therefore, no risk — you’re getting issued amounts of equity based on…
Many companies forbid the sale of usernames in their terms of service, so an attempt to auction it off could result in it being revoked. Generally, when sales of usernames do happen, it’s in private so there’s little…
Not just themselves, often it's stolen to order: there's been a few mainstream stories about this and they often mention that paying off Facebook employees is pretty commonplace because the value of these usernames and…
An extra consideration is that LastPass claim to be monitoring their systems constantly, specifically call out automated attempts ("fairly common bot-related activity"), so we can assume that monitoring includes…
Another possibility is that one of their (many) previous security incidents led to the leaking / exposure of master password hashes, and maybe LastPass don't treat the password hashes as they should (as a password!) and…
I thought that LastPass didn't send your master password over the wire, rather it uses client-side code to take your Master Password and turn it into a hash which is then sent to LastPass for comparison[1]. If that is…
known quantities don’t typically share ownership by percentage. certainly an early startup might offer %x equity, but once a quantity is known — therefore, no risk — you’re getting issued amounts of equity based on…
Many companies forbid the sale of usernames in their terms of service, so an attempt to auction it off could result in it being revoked. Generally, when sales of usernames do happen, it’s in private so there’s little…
Not just themselves, often it's stolen to order: there's been a few mainstream stories about this and they often mention that paying off Facebook employees is pretty commonplace because the value of these usernames and…
An extra consideration is that LastPass claim to be monitoring their systems constantly, specifically call out automated attempts ("fairly common bot-related activity"), so we can assume that monitoring includes…
Another possibility is that one of their (many) previous security incidents led to the leaking / exposure of master password hashes, and maybe LastPass don't treat the password hashes as they should (as a password!) and…
I thought that LastPass didn't send your master password over the wire, rather it uses client-side code to take your Master Password and turn it into a hash which is then sent to LastPass for comparison[1]. If that is…