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Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by tolmasky »

kapitalx wrote: post #70
daenz wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what rubbed me the wrong way about the video saying over and over "It completely redefines how you search the web!" No, not really.

It does completely redefine the way you search the web. It's changing search results from text to thumbnails. That will be totally useless in many circumstances, but could be useful in some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearchMe

I remember when this came out -- they spent a lot advertising this same "revolution", there were billboards and everything for it.

Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by micmcg »

veb wrote: post #6

The advertisement is a bit of an overkill. I wish there was more text on the main page to tell me exactly what it is. The advertisement showed me a dude punching websites.

Cause he is MAXXXTREME!

Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by ricardobeat »

The iOS version looks genuinely interesting. I bet they would have better success if they made it a real browser on desktop too, they could have used Chromium, like Rockmelt did.

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Post by zach »

qwerki wrote: post #79
derleth wrote: post #77

Axis countries during WWII. Axis of Evil. Axis Chemical, because early adopters are Batman fans. Why this name? What positive associations does it have?

"a new way to access/axis the web".. they keep mentioning it in the demo video.

"If you have a question on your mind, just type in whatever the thing you want to axis!"

Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by rurounijones »

nikcub wrote: post #72

So it turns out they accidentally included their certificate private key inside the Chrome extension package: https://twitter.com/nikcub/status/205489752684765185 Edit: just created a fake package and signed it: https://github.com/nikcub/yahoo-spoof

Well done Yahoo, is it a cert they use on all their products / sites or just this one?

Wondering about the pain the revocation is gonna cause.

Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by rurounijones »

harbud wrote: post #45
laconian wrote: post #36

Not supported for my operating system. (I run Linux.) I thought this was a browser plugin?

Yahoo! never cared for Linux users. Remember the Linux version of Yahoo! Messenger? It lagged behind the Windows version so much before being quietly removed. Coincidentally, I never care much for Yahoo! anymore.

I think the point is he trying to make is that the plugin is for the browser which should have abstracted away all OS specifics.

I.e. this plugin should work on any OS that the browser does.

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Post by atarian »

nikcub wrote: post #72

So it turns out they accidentally included their certificate private key inside the Chrome extension package: https://twitter.com/nikcub/status/205489752684765185 Edit: just created a fake package and signed it: https://github.com/nikcub/yahoo-spoof

I don't know what kind of damage you can cause with this information, but I do think that posting this publicly was pretty unethical. You should have contacted Yahoo and then disclosed the information after.

EDIT: And here comes the downvotes. If you disagree with what I said then you really should post a response because you're preventing me from understanding why I might be wrong. If I knew your house door was unlocked, would it be okay for me to tell everyone in the world before I let you know?

Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by rurounijones »

atarian wrote: post #88
nikcub wrote: post #72

So it turns out they accidentally included their certificate private key inside the Chrome extension package: https://twitter.com/nikcub/status/205489752684765185 Edit: just created a fake package and signed it: https://github.com/nikcub/yahoo-spoof

I don't know what kind of damage you can cause with this information, but I do think that posting this publicly was pretty unethical. You should have contacted Yahoo and then disclosed the information after. EDIT: And here comes the downvotes. If you disagree with what I said then you really should post a response because you're preventing me from understanding why I might be wrong. If I knew your house door was unlo…

He caused no damage whatsoever.

Yahoo caused the damage the second they put it up for download and someone downloaded it, at that point the cat was out of the bag and the certificate compromised.

When dealing with certificate signing and compromised private certs "Maybe no one noticed" is not a good enough response.

(I am assuming he used various methods of contacting Yahoo directly as well as publicly calling them out of course.)

EDIT: Thinking about it he MIGHT have caused damage because maybe no one else may have noticed before yahoo got the cert revoked, but that chances that no one else (blackhats for example) noticing before the cert was revoked are very small in my opinion.

Re: Yahoo Axis

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Post by marblar »

nl wrote: post #25

"Watch the Ad!" Is there anything that shows how out-of-touch Yahoo better than the idea of wasting 1/3 of the above-the-fold space with something that warns people in advance it is nothing more than an ad ? Call it "Learn More" or something - anything but this. Didn't they A/B test it? (Or maybe I'm part of the unsuccessful half of an A/B test. Hmm..)

I would expect info videos in general to result in a much higher bounce rate, unless they are accompanied by a text-based explanation of what the product is.
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