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Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the breathe-freely dept.

Sparks23 writes "Third-party instant messaging clients have begun to reconnect to Yahoo. While the authorization scheme has not been completely decoded -- expect some bumps -- Gaim and Trillian have both partially restored connectivity. Gaim has the new authorization scheme in CVS and their new 0.70 release, and Cerulean has made a beta patch available for Trillian Pro 2.0; consider both patches 'beta' for the moment."

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  1. I read your chat by airuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love internet chat sessions. I snoop on them with ethereal at every opportunity.

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  2. "Cracking" protocoles and DMCA? by file-exists-p · · Score: 4, Funny

    From http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ Our friends over at Cerulean Studios managed to break my speed record at cracking Yahoo authentication schemes with an impressive feat of hackery.

    Can't Yahoo use the DMCA to send all those people to Guantanamo?

  3. Slashdot summary by Syberghost · · Score: 5, Funny

    Summary of the current state of discussion regarding Yahoo on Slashdot:

    1. "Poor Yahoo. Nasty Indian government officials restricting this company from providing its valuable services to the internet."

    2. "Damn Yahoo. Nasty corporate goons restricting people from using its services. We should all switch to Jabber."

  4. Re:Cooperation by liam193 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yahoo is actually fostering a good relationship between "competing" clients.


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    Great.... I can just see the next headline about this topic on Slashdot:

    Yahoo supports collaboration between "competing" clients.
    In a move that is sure to turn a few heads, a Yahoo spokesperson indicated that collaboration between other clients was their primary goal all along. "It was always our intent to force the competition to work together," said Yahoo. "We never realized it would require this much encouragement." According to the information released by Yahoo, they had no intention of keeping users of other clients off their network; they were simply forcing the other client vendors to improve their products through collaboration.

  5. Whever I see the IM wars start up again... by Trolling4Dollars · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...all I can picture is the "Rock-em Sock-em Robots" (as MS and Yahoo) having at each other. It's a damn funny image if you ask me. Speaking of which, how many here think that iD software got their inspiration for the Doom and Quake soldiers from Rock-em Sock-em Robots?

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