[jubilanti]

PRIVACY WARNING: Every name/text entered into this site is publicly listed on the "latest" leaderboard which seems to paginate endlessly.

[turtlesoup]

Just deployed a fix for this; removed latest and capped pagination.

[bdieterm]

update to my previous comment:

All the data is still public. There are more than 104000 entries now.

The original name, that was searched, is also stored in the data (in another field; somehow I missed that before).

@tourtlesoup: Why don't you restrict the access and why don't you put a warning on your page?

[bdieterm]

It is still possible to download all entries via the api and sort them by the timestamp. Removing the cursor data would be one way to mitigate this.

Currently there are a bit more than 43000 entries. As far as I have seen, only the results are stored. When I entered a random name, only a similar name was found, and that similar name result was stored, but not the original input.

[rdtsc]

That's the first thing I looked to see HN-ers real names :-) and thought "hey, that's a pretty clever to get everyones' names".

Apparently it's fixed now. Surely you'll trust a random website...

[dofm]

And will thus potentially end up in the effing weights.

[Crowberry]

That sucks… shame on me I guess

[1over137]

Wouldn't thinking so be the default for the HN crowd? I'd have thought any hacker would assume any text you type in a random website would be used however the website administrator wanted. (Not that the general public would think so.)

[bluefirebrand]

This was the first thing I thought too.

Even if this thing wasn't publicly displaying the names, I would assume they would be collecting them for something.

Can't trust anything like this online.

[ronbenton]

Can’t trust anything online

[cocoa19]

Ugh too fucking late. What a privacy nightmare.