Yahoo is not a universally free service. For-pay options are available. I use a couple of them. I don't know what they "owe" their non-paying (ad-supported) customers... but they had bloody well better agree that they owe _me_ good service, or they can kiss my annual tribute goodbye.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek ZMan, Very true. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 15, 2012, at 12:53 PM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey zMan, >> >> Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their >> customers >> > > Absolutely. Though this gets into a related issue: what do free > services "owe" their customers? I'm not satisfied with the current > answer of > "nothing": they're able to make money off their real customers > (advertisers) because their free customers exist. So the pure > capitalist answer of "If they screw the freebies they'll fail" isn't quite > sufficient. > But I'm not sure what the right answer is. > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
