Why We Should All Dump Yahoo

Post by bbcbasic » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

codemac wrote: post #48

phantom_oracle wrote: post #43

"...I care about my own privacy and security..." and yet your website has no encryption. Thus, when I enter my details on your form, it is being passed over the same internet in plaintext, thereby violating the exact "privacy and security" this "protest" aims to create.

Well, I think the concept here is to publicly pledge to dump yahoo, in order to convince & pressure others to do the same. Saying you care about your privacy and security doesn't mean you remove yourself from all forms of public expression. It's the most basic form of free speech. If you want to privately pledge, just write it down on a sticky note, and put it on your monitor.

Post by CobrastanJorji » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 7:13 PM UTC

bbcbasic wrote: post #51

codemac wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I think the concept here is to publicly pledge to dump yahoo, in order to convince & pressure others to do the same. Saying you care about your privacy and security doesn't mean you remove yourself from all forms of public expression. It's the most basic form of free speech. If you want to privately pledge, just write it down on a sticky note, and put it on your monitor.

Still. I think its a bit absurd.

Post by CobrastanJorji » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

jwtadvice wrote: post #28

crystalmeph wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> To be fair, according to this article, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others have explicitly denied allowing government officials direct access to their servers. Right, but the statements were very carefully crafted PR statements that only implied that there were no similar feeds while leaving open the possibility that there may be. Having watching the industry for some time (Skype's PR denials come to mind as well…

Post by pavel_lishin » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 7:19 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #21

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…

Isn't your E-mail address used as the username in most services' credentials? So you should know which services you registered using your Yahoo E-mail address because that's what you use to log in. Just go in and change them over to using your new address. For those few that don't use E-mail, take a Sunday afternoon and log in to each of them to check. Surely it couldn't be that difficult.

Post by akerro » Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 7:27 PM UTC

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #49

akerro wrote: post #44

Should I drop dropbox, google, apple, MS, CloudFare, LinkedIn, Ebay + paypal, amazon, MasterCard and Visa for the same reasons?

Doing so is just so increasingly limiting on our lives. What might be a more ideal scenario is to change the government's priorities, and enact strict(er) privacy laws that prevent these and other companies from sharing our data, or to be able to speak out when a hidden government department asks them to keep it under wraps.