full-disclosure - Re: How I become Vice President of Security at Yahoo! 1999-2005.

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:33:04 -0800
From: BMF <badmotherfsckr@...il.com>
To: John Q Public <johndoetron@...h.ai>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: How I become Vice President of Security at
	Yahoo! 1999-2005.

Pass the dutchie...

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM, John Q Public <johndoetron@...h.ai> wrote:
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> Greetings.
>
> I've been holding this one back for a while. It's been eating at my
> skin.
>
> I was just an intern at the time, but I'd get the mail, copy the
> text, delete his mail, and send the mail to my supervisor, authored
> by me.
>
> I still remember the friendships I made at Yahoo. The cute
> girlfriends I have and how it changed my life. I remember I was
> just some office kid opening up emails in outlook 2000. But I risen
> to be so much more. This mysterious person helped me do it.
>
> Eventually, I was promoted up Vice President of Security at Yahoo!
> and made nearly six figures a year.

Nearly, eh? I guess six figures sounds like a lot from the point of
view of the kind of wanker who would write this.

>
> This is what I did. And I told no one. All I know is there is a kid
> whose advice I took credit for and he is the key factor for my
> success in life.
>
> I live in a $500k condo in Mountain View. Wife, 2 kids, and a Lexus
> (2009 Hybrid, Italian leather seats, TV in backseat for the kids).

$500k isn't much house in a big city in California (although it was
even less a couple years ago).

>
> I just wanted to let you know that the security tips helped. I feel
> pretty guilty for flat out taking credit for all his work though. I
> just had to get it off my chest.
>
> Thank you so much, if you read this list. You've touched my life.

Your mom.

BMF

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