Whelp. Yahoo is officially over today. It was quite a fall.
Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
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Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#12Whelp. Yahoo is officially over today. It was quite a fall.
Do you think?
Seems to me people are getting used to accounts being hacked, it's not such a big deal any more, in fact it may be even an expectation.
And as for government NSA hacking, well that's just old news and a given isn't it?
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#13Yahoo stock hasn't moved very much recently over these issues. I guess the market still thinks that the Verizon acquisition will still go through. For context, the price was ~$43 after the acquisition and closed at ~$41 today.
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#14There is no moral dilemma here. If you blow the whistle on the NSA you are a traitor to your own country. How can this not be clear to people.
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#15Let's say you were on security on and found it on the network. Would you somehow be bound by a gag order about it, since you would never have seen said gag order?
Not necessarily, but you are for sure bound by the confidentiality agreement you signed on employment
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#16Yahoo stock hasn't moved very much recently over these issues. I guess the market still thinks that the Verizon acquisition will still go through. For context, the price was ~$43 after the acquisition and closed at ~$41 today.
I guess the market doesn't care about the security and confidentiality of users who aren't paying customers.
Kinda makes you think of "marks" in the carny sense (http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/slang/carny-slang.html)
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#17This is an old story that was discussed extensively when it was new (in October): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637126
First time I'm hearing about it. October is very recent so not old at all.
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#18Whelp. Yahoo is officially over today. It was quite a fall.
Do you think? Seems to me people are getting used to accounts being hacked, it's not such a big deal any more, in fact it may be even an expectation. And as for government NSA hacking, well that's just old news and a given isn't it?
I'm not sure that people are getting 'used' to it. I was talking to a non-techie over the weekend, and although they were aware about Snowden's NSA revelations, they were quite perturbed to think someone could be reading their email.
I don't think people have stopped caring, they just feel helpless. This means that normal people may be willing to adopt new protocols (end-to-end encryption), something they wouldn't do if they were accepting of NSA spying.
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#19There is no moral dilemma here. If you blow the whistle on the NSA you are a traitor to your own country. How can this not be clear to people.
I agree but only in the same sense that Jefferson and Washington were traitors to their king.
Re: Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
#20Yahoo stock hasn't moved very much recently over these issues. I guess the market still thinks that the Verizon acquisition will still go through. For context, the price was ~$43 after the acquisition and closed at ~$41 today.
Most of the value from yhoo is from its holdings in alibaba. So this actually is fairly irrelevant for the stock.