On: I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords

[akerl_]

What site out there is sending my plaintext passwords to a 3rd party service to validate their strength?

[bikamonki → akerl_]

Hopefully none, and hopefully they are all following best practices to protect your password, but you trust them regardless. Besides, who said plain text, such service could use ssl.

[agersant → bikamonki]

I think he meant plaintext as opposed to a hash of the password.