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On 13/02/14 17:22, Simon Avery wrote: > > > At that point I came to the conclusion that yahoo are a bunch of > clueless > tossers. > > > You missed out a few other words. Here, let me help; > > "bunch of criminally motivated, fraudulent and clueless tossers" > > I am unable to substantiate this, but I have a strong belief that Yahoo > are complicit in selling access details to their users email accounts > and propogating spam. Doing seemingly nothing to stop the ongoing major > security breaches that have plagued them for over half a decade, and > only reacting to user complaints enough to avoid being publically > branded a spamhaus. > > If you're using yahoo for email, and quite possibly other services, > forget about being overlooked by the NSA - I have little doubt your > information is available to the highest bidder - either with Yahoo > management's agreement, or without it and they're incompetent to a > criminal degree by allowing it to continue for so long. > > In short, avoid Yahoo! as much as you can. Mr Meowski fully supports this post. I think their criminality is more through stupidity and culpability for their failures rather than actual maliciousness, but yes, if you are using any of their 'services' or know someone who is, do them a favour and get them far, far away from Yahoo as possible. Still haven't forgiven them for letting the throwaway account I originally used to register on this list get hijacked and spamming half of you. Yahoo are 2014's AOL, and hopefully not long for this world. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq