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It isn't crap - there are services that purchase or gain access to leaked databases and then send you an alert if your email is found in one of them.

http://haveibeenpwned.com/

is one such service, but there are also commercial services with larger/broader datasets that are almost always obtained on the dark web

On the topic of haveibeenpwned - I can't believed it hasn't been mentioned in this thread, it is one of the most important free services you can make use of to prevent or alert yourself to theft of your own data

If this comment gets 500 upvotes in 24 hours I'll review it

You can take the YouTuber out of YouTube and put him on reddit, but you can't take the YouTube out of the YouTuber

wouldn't that be employment discrimination?

It's explained here in How New Zealand outplayed Australia on a broadband rollout

Cliff notes:

• NZ is smaller than Australia (duh)
• NZ went with an original 75% FTTP target and phased up to 84% in 2024, Australia originally went with 93% right away
• NZ partnered with industry, Australia privatised and then bought back base infrastructure
• Australia built in more expensive regional areas first which blew costs out
• AUS FTTP ended up costing $4,500 per prem vs $2,700 in NZ
• Australia needed to keep CVC costs up to maintain a commercial rate of return as that was the original promise. In all likelihood now it looks like they're about to write down $20B or more
• Service based on CVC/backhaul means squeezed customers, poorer service and more complaints

The good news for Aus is that with the future write-down a new and slim NBN Co. will likely be able to shift to per-port pricing and open the market up - it just adds tens of billions in sunk costs to the federal budget

edit: also add (and this applies to NZ as well) - that Australia has the most expensive bandwidth in the world since the peering rate is so low with the rest of the world and customers in Australia have to pay for full transit. The more services that are hosted in Australia, the better - but Australia will never really "sell" a lot of domestic data to international customers

Australia could have easily run fiber to the home in high density areas and had the same economics as Europe or the USA - the problem was in servicing the other 20-25% of the market where the costs can move to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per connection

The first "N" in NBN implies that those costs of getting everyone hooked up, even the most expensive sites, get absorbed by everyone - and even in that most optimistic model 93% of households were getting FTTP