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Yahoo To Open Up Email Authentication
Aditi.Tuteja writes, "Yahoo has announced it will give away the browser-based authentication used in its email service, considered to be the company's 'crown jewels.' Yahoo made the announcement ahead of a 24-hour 'Yahoo Hack Day,' where it had invited more than 500 mostly youthful outside programmers to build new applications using Yahoo services. Considering the different needs of its huge user base (257 million people use Yahoo Mail), Yahoo has decided it can't build or buy enough innovation, so they are enlisting the worldwide developer community." The code will be released late in 2006. Yahoo notes that there are 'no security risks' since they keep absolute control of usernames and passwords.
It should be boo for Yahoo, hope they burn. Last I herd, Yahoo corporate policy has not offered the tiniest twich of regret for turning people over to China's government who sufferd suvere punishments for exercising free speech. Since it is so easy to switch search engines, and not that much harder to switch to a 3rd party email account, I can't imagine why anyone would want to do business with them any more - and I'm the kinda of guy that would still buys Nikes mande in sweat shops. If they want to respect China's laws to stay in China's market, then I say great. Lets tell them to go to hell, and let China be their only market.
No body fucking cares if you're "jaded".