Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 6:18 PM UTC

Silhouette wrote: post #24

wila wrote: post #2

While I agree with the sentiment. Here's why you should not delete your yahoo account. Once you delete your account, yahoo will make it available again to everyone. This means that if you have not unlinked everything it can be used by others to reset accounts on services you forgot that you linked to your yahoo account. Instead of deleting it, forward it all to another account and stop using it. Do not forget to log…

This is an excellent argument for setting up e-mail using your own domain name, though, and for using that for all new accounts and transitioning existing accounts to your new e-mail address as soon as possible. The Internet works just fine when it's decentralised, but particularly with e-mail, relying on the big service providers (or an ISP-provided address, for that matter) immediately locks you into someone else's…

Post by dredmorbius » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

emanueld wrote: post #16

This is a great way to sign people up to your mailing list.

Post by kzisme » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 6:27 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #32

wtetzner wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just use Mailinator[1] for that. [1] https://www.mailinator.com/

That's inbound only though, correct? You need another provider for sending.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 6:29 PM UTC

crystalmeph wrote: post #22

donretag wrote: post #8

Yahoo is simply the first company that we publicly know of that scans incoming emails. If the government can force Yahoo, they will force all of them. Yahoo has more disgruntled former employees to reveal secrets than Google, Microsoft, etc...

To be fair, according to this article, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have explicitly denied allowing government officials direct access to their servers. However, due to the secrecy requirements of the law, we cannot know if they did allow the government some other form of access that was functionally equivalent to a rootkit on the server in terms of what the government could access. Pure speculation on my par…

Post by Ygg2 » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 6:29 PM UTC

crystalmeph wrote: post #22

donretag wrote: post #8

Yahoo is simply the first company that we publicly know of that scans incoming emails. If the government can force Yahoo, they will force all of them. Yahoo has more disgruntled former employees to reveal secrets than Google, Microsoft, etc...

To be fair, according to this article, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have explicitly denied allowing government officials direct access to their servers. However, due to the secrecy requirements of the law, we cannot know if they did allow the government some other form of access that was functionally equivalent to a rootkit on the server in terms of what the government could access. Pure speculation on my par…