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Message-ID: <7351b7a60603171923v719b009m95be5405bc397ed0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 18 03:23:58 2006
From: mrbabs at gmail.com (MR BABS)
Subject: Yahoo recommends you write down account
	information

WOW great troll n3td3v you are truly the greatest trolling organization on
the earth! I bet you and bantown are cooking up some schemes right now!

On 3/16/06, bigdaddyzeroday@...h.ai <bigdaddyzeroday@...h.ai> wrote:
>
> 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@...oo.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@...den.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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>
>
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