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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:28:03AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > yahoo accounts are too easily breached. They're a security nightmare. Given that I've been very vocal on this in the past, I feel obliged to say that I see very little evidence of this these days. Yahoo has spent a lot of effort on security recently and this is probably one of the results. > Oh, and their DMARC policy is boorish, forcing many mailing lists to > make large scale changes to accommodate them. In theory I agree. In practice, I've become convinced that there are so many sensible security measures that don't work because of mailing lists that perhaps it's their job to change - even if they will be right to claim that they have done nothing wrong. Sending messages with someone else's email address in the From: field may be one of those things from the 1980s that we should get rid off, like sending data in plain text over the public Internet. Yahoo also earned a lot of respect when it was found they had been fighting the highest secret US courts for its users' privacy, when there was a good chance (this was pre-Snowden) they would never deserve credit for it. Martijn.
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