archive teams As the end nears for Yahoo Groups, Verizon pulls out all the stops to keep archivists from preserving them Cory Doctorow
telco deletionists Yahoo Groups archivists despair as Verizon blocks their preservation efforts ahead of shutdown Cory Doctorow
i blame shingy Yahoo Groups is being prepared for shutdown, with all stored archives to be deleted on Dec 14 Cory Doctorow
alex stamos Alex Stamos on the security problems of the platforms' content moderation, and what to do about them Cory Doctorow
data scanning WSJ: Yahoo plans to scan users' messages for data to sell to advertisers Séamus Bellamy
karim baratov Russia-linked hacker Karim Baratov gets 5 years in U.S. prison & $250,000 fine for Yahoo breach Xeni Jardin
guess it's verizon's problem now Yahoo revises number of hacked accounts from 500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 Cory Doctorow
defederation Verizon bought Yahoo, so Flickr and Tumblr users with AT&T email addresses are being cut off Cory Doctorow
fatally compromised Tumblr is now owned by a phone company, so it's stopped fighting for Network Neutrality Cory Doctorow
homeopathic guilt money After ratting out users to China, Yahoo created (and then blew) a $17m "dissidents' fund" Cory Doctorow
#putintrumplovefest Justice Dept. to charge 2 Russian spies and 2 criminal hackers with 2014 Yahoo breach of 500 million accounts Xeni Jardin
y combinator After record-breaking donations and members, ACLU signs up for the Y Combinator startup accelerator Cory Doctorow
yet another hierarchical officious oracle Yahoo reveals hackers took a further 1 billion accounts (phone, DoB, names, emails) Cory Doctorow
