Troy Hunt: Weekly Update 449

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Today, I arrived at my PC first thing in the morning to find the UPS dead (battery was cactus) and the PC obviously without power. So, I tracked down a powerboard and some IEC C14 to mains cable adaptors and powered back up. On boot, neither the Bluetooth mouse nor keyboard worked. So, I tracked down a wired version of each, logged on, didn’t find anything weird in the Device Manager, then gave it a reboot, which resulted in the machine not getting past the Lenovo splash screen. So, I rebooted and the same thing happened, unplugged the new USB devices, rebooted again and ended up on the Bitlocker key entry screen. So, on my spare PC I went to my Microsoft account, retrieved the correct key for the disk in question, rebooted and ended up on the recovery screen. So, I ran the recovery process and, much to my surprise, got straight back into Windows.

That’s what trying to work out the login / log in / log on / sign in thing was like this week; incrementally shaving the yak until things work and make sense!

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References

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  2. The new Pwned Passwords search is actually too fast! (settle down, usability isn’t as simple as “always make everything as fast as possible”)
  3. I went down the “login” rabbit hole and emerged with “sign in” (I still feel this was the most logical conclusion to reach)
  4. Keep those great HIBP UX ideas coming! (May 17 is our go-live date for the new UX, and it’s going to be amazing!)
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