“Why would any sane person type their password(s) into a site on the internet that can presumably also determine their ISP address?”
Like Free Republic?
That has been a normal feature of webhosting software since there was a web to host.
You may not have clicked on the site I was referring to, which offered to “check your password” to see if it is “strong”. It could simply be a harvesting site, is my point. Dumb people may try out the root password for their computer, or the password to their credit card or bank acccount, you don’t know.
FR is a destination web site, not the password to your health records or EZPass, etc. With FR, we have a degree of trust with the owner, whom many freepers have met personally.
A password harvesting site assembles dossiers on individuals and if they can hack your computer, they have a list of passwords to try out on your files. Other harvesting site offers to tell you your horoscope if you enter your birthdate or other identifying info. Don’t fall for that stuff.