{"id":903,"date":"2010-12-04T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2010-12-04T15:14:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:14:03","slug":"yahoo-mails-inexplicable-inexcusable-lack-of-https-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/yahoo-mails-inexplicable-inexcusable-lack-of-https-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Mail&#8217;s inexplicable, inexcusable lack of https support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Yahoo,<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the deal? Shortly after FireSheep was <a href=\"http:\/\/sandiego.toorcon.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=74&amp;Itemid=9\">announced<\/a> on Oct 24, 2010, you should have had an emergency security all-hands meeting. You should have had an edict passed down from the &#8220;Paranoids&#8221; group to get secure or else. Maybe these things happened&#8211;I have no way of knowing.<\/p>\n<p>But it is clear that it&#8217;s been 6 weeks and security hasn&#8217;t changed. It&#8217;s simply not possible to read Yahoo mail over https&#8211;try it and you get redirected\u00c2\u00a0straight\u00c2\u00a0back to an insecure channel. As such, anyone accessing Yahoo mail on a public network, say a coffee shop or a workplace, is vulnerable to having their private information read, forwarded,\u00c2\u00a0compromised, or deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, did I say 6 weeks?&#8211;SSL had\u00c2\u00a0apparently\u00c2\u00a0been rolled out for mail more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/news\/2008\/06\/12\/3494864.htm\">2 years ago<\/a>, but pulled back due to problems. Talk about failure to execute.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I missed an announcement. What&#8217;s the deal, Y? Show me that you care about your users. No excuses.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Yahoo, What&#8217;s the deal? Shortly after FireSheep was announced on Oct 24, 2010, you should have had an emergency security all-hands meeting. You should have had an edict passed down from the &#8220;Paranoids&#8221; group to get secure or else. Maybe these things happened&#8211;I have no way of knowing. But it is clear that it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,15],"tags":[619,1039,1159],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annoyance","category-yahoo","tag-email","tag-insecure","tag-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-ez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}