★ Huge Yahoo! authentication security bug

(Article originally published in French on Clubic.com)

A huge bug has been discovered in Yahoo! authentication mechanism affecting third party applications, even those created by Yahoo!

A member of the Yahoo! Mail Group has discovered that people having connected third party applications may have a problem if they lose their smartphone. Indeed, despite what Yahoo says, changing the password will not be enough. This will not totally revok access to those third party applications.

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Tue-17-2012 | ❤ 18

But the truth is : real, honest, open minded geeks are scarce. Don’t you just hate those wannabe geeks stuck in 2002 who absolutely know nothing about what they’re talking about when referring to today’s Hotmail or AOL.

Sat-17-2011 | ❤ 17
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Blake Irving talks Yahoo! vs Geeks

How can Yahoo! appeal to geeks again ? Blake Irving, Yahoo! EVP Products, answers. Please excuse my bad English :) 

Fri-16-2011

∞ Rocking the Yahoo! Mail beta

Are you using the new Yahoo! Mail beta ? Have you ditched IE for Firefox or Chrome ? great ! Then you may want to install those userscripts right now as they’ll certainly make your life much easier by tweaking the interface. So far Yahoo! has failed to answer users’ feedbacks. Those scripts were written by a fellow member of the Yahoo! Mail Group which I opened back in 2005.

Mon-7-2011 | ❤ 1