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An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
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Re: An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
#22Moving email addresses out from one provider and creating another one is more difficult than moving phone numbers (in the latter case, number portability could help, if available). What exactly can an average/common end user do for such incidents, even if it is to avoid them in the future? I use different passwords across accounts, with all of them being somewhat complex or very complex. I have looked at a few differ…
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Re: An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
#23Anybody know what hash they use at yahoo for account passwords?
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#24I think my only concern is what data I had attached to my Yahoo account (for Flickr) which I think they required me to tie to a phone number. So I guess that means I can expect people trying to abuse that phone number as a point of identification in identity theft attempts. Oh joy.
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#25You can verify if your credentials have been compromised at https://heroic.com
Do you save email addresses entered into the site?
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#26Moving email addresses out from one provider and creating another one is more difficult than moving phone numbers (in the latter case, number portability could help, if available). What exactly can an average/common end user do for such incidents, even if it is to avoid them in the future? I use different passwords across accounts, with all of them being somewhat complex or very complex. I have looked at a few differ…
Try protonmail
Why not Tutanota?
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#27Yahoo's login experience has been horrible lately. This must be a contributing factor.
Re: An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
#28Moving email addresses out from one provider and creating another one is more difficult than moving phone numbers (in the latter case, number portability could help, if available). What exactly can an average/common end user do for such incidents, even if it is to avoid them in the future? I use different passwords across accounts, with all of them being somewhat complex or very complex. I have looked at a few differ…
Moving to a new email address (and taking all your existing mails with you to the new inbox) is actually far easier than changing phone numbers. Almost all (old) providers let you set up a mail forwarding (to the new provider). But even better, several services let you set up some fetchmail-like program where it imports all the messages from the old provider, e.g. via POP3 or IMAP, and even deletes them with the old…
FastMail has working tech but customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Google is leagues ahead of them there.
It's better than Office365 support though.
Re: An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
#29Moving email addresses out from one provider and creating another one is more difficult than moving phone numbers (in the latter case, number portability could help, if available). What exactly can an average/common end user do for such incidents, even if it is to avoid them in the future? I use different passwords across accounts, with all of them being somewhat complex or very complex. I have looked at a few differ…
I have had good luck with fastmail.com, but at $30/year for the entry-level option it sits in what you classify as the "expensive" category. For a dedicated service with keen developers and ongoing product development (yay U2F support), great and accessible support, reasonable expectations of privacy, it has been well worth it. YMMV, of course.
Thanks. That $20 a year was just an approximate amount. I wouldn't mind paying a little more.
I've seen Fastmail recommended multiple times and have looked at it. Considering that I would actually want at least three or four "users" (access wise), the plans are quite expensive. The fact that each user can have up to 600 aliases (which sounds great and is useful) doesn't matter much to me since the billing is per user (as opposed to some kind of mix and match of users and aliases). This makes their business model not suitable for my needs.
Re: An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
#30Moving email addresses out from one provider and creating another one is more difficult than moving phone numbers (in the latter case, number portability could help, if available). What exactly can an average/common end user do for such incidents, even if it is to avoid them in the future? I use different passwords across accounts, with all of them being somewhat complex or very complex. I have looked at a few differ…
Buy your own domain, you control the MX record.