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leftpass
5y ago
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 their value. I would be e
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leftpass
5y ago
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 reason to take action…
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leftpass
5y ago
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 the low pai
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leftpass
5y ago
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 "attempts to
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leftpass
5y ago
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 didn'
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leftpass
5y ago
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 the case, how can