Yahoo! Hacked

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by PJC, Dec 20, 2012.

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  1. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

  2. Wroll

    Wroll Registered Member

    I don't know if the hack is true, but from my experience with Yahoo, you gotta be crazy to relay on them, at least their mail services.
     
  3. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

    There are more reliable Web-based e-mail providers than Yahoo!...;)
     
  4. tgell

    tgell Registered Member

    Can you name a few?
     
  5. Mman79

    Mman79 Registered Member

    Yahoo has really reached the point of irrelevance. They're shutting down services and features left and right, mail has become a travesty and has really only become decent as a spam trap when you're forced to give a "real" email address to sign up for things. I personally use Outlook.com as my provider, though they force you to disable any ad-blockers since sending attachments and such won't work at all with it enabled.
     
  6. Mman79

    Mman79 Registered Member

    GMX, Gmail, Outlook (the old Hotmail), stick out right away.
     
  7. Nebulus

    Nebulus Registered Member

    I really don't understand how can an email service become irrelevant... o_O
     
  8. Mman79

    Mman79 Registered Member

    The company certainly has in my opinion. As far as the email service, it's in use still, but there is so much better out there and many are leaving Yahoo behind for those better alternatives. Last, an email service can become just as irrelevant as any service can. Irrelevance can be based on a lot of factors, usage included.
     
  9. tgell

    tgell Registered Member

    Thanks, I checked out GMX and believe I will go with that.
     
  10. Mman79

    Mman79 Registered Member

    Quite welcome.
     
  11. Nebulus

    Nebulus Registered Member

    Be careful with GMX when it comes to password recovery. The password recovery procedure doesn't work if you rely only on security question alone and you don't enter a secondary email.
     
  12. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

    Hushmail, Lavabit, Zoho, Enigmail are a few examples...;)
     
  13. zfactor

    zfactor Registered Member

    gmx looks pretty nice. thanks for the tip. does hushmail still have the backdoor issue they had a few years ago??
     
  14. tgell

    tgell Registered Member

    Thanks for the heads up.

    @PJC, thanks for the other email providers.
     
  15. LOL Hushmail is code for "We co-operate with LEA" :thumbd: :thumbd: :thumbd: :thumbd: :thumbd: :thumbd:
     
  16. starfish_001

    starfish_001 Registered Member

    so true
     
  17. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

    You are welcome! :thumb:
    Can you, please, elaborate on it?
     
  18. Mman79

    Mman79 Registered Member

    He's not saying anything that isn't true for most any other email service or service in general these days. They just took a PR beating for doing it. If you're going to talk about illegal matters or plan things over email (in which case you'd be an idiot), you don't do it using services provided by companies based in Canada, the U.S or any allies. Hell, at the very least use Tor Mail.
     
  19. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

    Awesome. ;)
     
  20. Thankful

    Thankful Savings Monitor

    Never had a problem with Yahoo webmail. I tried GMX awhile ago and couldn't get links to work properly within email messages. I don't know if they fixed that yet or not.
     
  21. Noob

    Noob Registered Member

    HAHAHAHAHA i've been using my Yahoo! mail as a junk mail for at least 8 years. :D (I think 9 years would be more accurate but whatever)
     
  22. chrisretusn

    chrisretusn Registered Member

    I have four Yahoo! accounts, Two I normally access via IMAP and sometimes my browser, the other two almost always using POP3. No problems with any of those accounts.

    I get very little spam on those accounts.

    I also have a gmx.com account, this one gets spam everyday. Mostly of the 419 variety.
     
    Last edited: Dec 24, 2012
  23. ronjor

    ronjor Global Moderator

    Yahoo mail has been trouble free for me for many years.
     
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