Re: Yahoo recommends you write down account information

[<bigdaddyzeroday () hush ai>]

Do you blow everything out of perportion like this?  How old must 
you be to have this attitude.

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:52:06 -0800 n3td3v group 
<system_outage () yahoo com> wrote:
> You're Yahoo's top security advisor, who I talk to every day off 
> the record, but you say PEOPLE LIE ABOUT INFORMATION THEY PUT ON 
> ONLINE FORMS?
>   
>  I think you're missing the point. The account information YAHOO 
> ask users to print out is the ACTUAL information on the users 
> ACCOUNT table.
>   
>  SURE, folks can type COMPLETE crap in their registeration for 
> signing upto a Yahoo account, but whatever information is 
> submitted to the Yahoo account, it is the TRUE information that 
> would give access to that account.
>   
>  SO, no matter the trend of users giving BOGUS information to 
> sign up for an account, the only people who would print out 
> information is people who would have submitted TRUE information. 
> Otherwise, why would they print out info they knew was bogus?
>   
>  MARK, you're Yahoo's top security advisor, and I respect you off 

> the record, but coming on here trying to defend Yahoo's sec pros 
> for getting it totally wrong in their CONTRADICTION between sites 
> is totally wrong.
>   
>  Yahoo said the wording  "DONT WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD" but on 
> the registeration proceedure it says "YAHOO RECOMMEND YOU WRITE 
> DOWN YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION"
>   
>  YOU AS YAHOO SECURITY ADVISOR NEED TO ADMIT "YAHOO" AS A 
> CORPORATION GOT IT WRONG.
>   
>  I speak to you every day off list, but going off on your own 
> crusade won't make the rest of the Yahoo security team like you 
> better.
>   
>  SEE YOU OFF LIST SEIDEN.
>   
>  Sorry to everyone else, this is part of an off list argument 
> that Yahoo's top advisor can't get a grip of.
>   
>  (How did you become Yahoo's top security advisor? :P)
>  SEE YOU OFF LIST
>  Bye
>   
>   
>   
>   
>  mis () seiden com wrote:
>    a certain number of people lie about their birthdate and 
> zipcode, or
> they forget just what they lied about, or move from place to
> place and forgot where they lived when they registered, 
> and they don't have a working alternate email address.
>
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