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Comment by joeblau | Hacker News Reader

Exactly. just show me the list and let me do a command+f. I'm not trying to enter my email into their system.

Are you being serious? Next time you search google, would you rather they display 5,000,000 results on one page and you Ctrl+F the response?

Wget and grep would be more likely to be used - but in answer to your question: yes, in a case like this.

Let's do some quick back-of-the-envelope math. 5M addresses, with very few longer than 25 characters. Let's say the average is around 17 characters. 17 * 5 * 10^6 = 35 * 10 ^7 = 3.5 * 10^8 bytes, or 350MB. Text generally compresses to 1/8 space with zlib, so the amount to transfer would be about 44MB, at most. Serving the list as xz compressed file could probably cut the size down to below 40MB.

In the age of 100MB youtube videos, that doesn't sound like much to me.

If the local client could handle it, this would be a much more secure way of browsing.

i sure hope you are beeing sarcastic, if not, consider this: it is possible to use javascript to override ctrl+f or other keystrokes. if that site would have displayed the list, and someone used ctrl+f on it, they could have simply used such a technique to add your input to the list to generate positive findings on the fly.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-script-kiddies-c...

you should reconsider this, because it is possible to use javascript to override ctrl+f or other keystrokes. if that site would have displayed the list, and someone used ctrl+f on it, they could have simply used such a technique to add your input to the list to generate positive findings on the fly.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-script-kiddies-c...

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