{"id":5183,"date":"2013-06-20T23:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2013-06-20T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T03:00:40","slug":"yahoo-noun-a-person-regarded-as-crude-or-brutish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5183","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo (noun): A person regarded as crude or brutish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lqart.org\/illustfold\/gulliver\/gultrav.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5186\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/yahoofight.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/yahoofight.jpg 350w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/yahoofight-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>I have read about this before and I didn&#8217;t want to believe it then. I still don&#8217;t believe it, to be honest, but it is apparently happening.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/technology\/yahoo-rejects-fears-hackers-will-exploit-old-user-ids-6C10390727\">recycle inactive user IDs<\/a>. That is, if you don&#8217;t log on to Yahoo for a period of 12 months, your old user ID will be up for grabs by whoever happens to be interested.<\/p>\n<p>Like your friendly neighborhood identity thief.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo claims that they are going to extraordinary lengths to prevent identity theft. But that is an insanely stupid thing to say. How can Yahoo prevent, say, a financial institution from sending a password confirmation e-mail to a hapless user&#8217;s old Yahoo ID if said user happened to use that ID to establish the account years ago?<\/p>\n<p>That is just one of many scenarios that I can think about for Yahoo&#8217;s bone-headed decision to backfire.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t think of a single sensible reason as to why Yahoo wants to do this in the first place. They will piss off a great many users and likely please no one.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they will change their mind before it&#8217;s too late. I hope that if they don&#8217;t change their mind, something nasty happens soon and someone sues their pants off.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5183' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read about this before and I didn&#8217;t want to believe it then. I still don&#8217;t believe it, to be honest, but it is apparently happening. Yahoo will recycle inactive user IDs. That is, if you don&#8217;t log on to Yahoo for a period of 12 months, your old user ID will be up <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5183' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-internet","category-51-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5183\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}