Yahoo's corporate blog on Tumblr, with announcements on email, search partnerships, security incidents and product shutdowns.
HN links it as the official source for Yahoo announcements, including breach disclosures, email address recycling and the reblogged PRISM response.
ashleyblackmore, the initial news stories seemed to imply voluntary, wide-scale, direct access to Google's (and other's) data by the NSA. I genuinely thought that sounded wrong and against the bent of Google--both its execs and the rank and file employees. In the last few days, more recent stories have indicated that it's more like compelled, limited FISA requests, which all US companies are legally required to respond to. See Yahoo's recent post at http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52491403007/setting-the-record-straight which also points in this direction.
Compelled and limited is a very different story than voluntary, wide-scale, and direct. Do I like FISA? No, I think it sucks. FISA orders come with a gag order, and laws that compel secrecy like that should be struck down, in my opinion. But in recent days, you've heard the CEO of Google say that they haven't gotten the sort of broad requests that (say) Verizon got, and that Google can and does push back on requests that they consider too broad.
I think the proper response to this issue should be frustration with bad laws, and calling your Senator or Representative in Congress to tell them that.
After seeing this article today, I made a post on Facebook to explain to some of my friends that aren't closely following the PRISM story that this is not compatible with the statements released by Mark Zuckerberg, Marissa Mayer, and Larry Page. I'll reproduce some of my post here--I'd link directly, but my Facebook is set to 'private.'
Remember when Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!) and Larry Page (Google) all denied "directly" giving the NSA everyone's data?
They claimed that all access was done through national security letters and warrants, because the slides that had leaked at the time supported that. Turns out new slides leaked, and everyone lied!
*snip* (I linked to the WaPo article, and the slide directly)
And for sources on the original denial (each claiming "no direct access"):
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631 (Zuckerberg/FB)
http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/53243441454/our-commitment-to-our-users-privacy (Mayer/Yahoo!)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html (Page/Google)
This seems to be a re-occurring misunderstanding. The 30 logos are not candidates. They are not potential logos. They are "our way of having some fun while honoring the legacy of our present logo" [1] and were used to get people used to the idea of change. There were horrible logos in there - pretty sure the people making them even knew that. The new logo, as it will be revealed tonight at midnight EST, will be the actual logo - everything else was tongue in cheek. It has people talking about Yahoo. It has people wondering what the actual new logo will be.
The Survata survey is a third party company making statistics for something that will give them self promotion - nothing wrong with that, but that is what it is.
[1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/57582020969/kicking-off-30-days-of-change
Right, but I think that most people can see right through the "look guys, we're cool! we care!" crap when it's this tacky and confusing. Quite frankly I thought they would be way more outlandish and unusable in the context of being a logo simply because of the name and the whimsicality of the current iteration. Downloading a bunch of type from Dafont does not a good logo or even fake contest make.
And here's the final they posted - http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/60332693287/introducing-our-new-logo - along with a now laughable quote about it from the post 30 days ago:
> The new logo will be a modern redesign that’s more reflective of our reimagined design and new experiences.
I can get at the post and I also couldn't see anything about the default outside of US/Russia/China.
What makes this particularly interesting is the rest of the globe includes some of Firefox's strongest markets. My gut suggests this is obscure because Google will remain the default there, but that's just a guess.
EDIT: My gut seems to be wrong. The Yahoo post on this ( http://yahoo.tumblr.com/1313 ) mentions "the long-term framework we developed with Mozilla for future product integrations and expansion into international markets". I think that means Yahoo will end up being the default outside Russia and China, though the rollout may take some time.
It is collecting dust for 99.99% of users. You've linked me to a commit of a merged pull request. That is not an indication that any of Yahoo's users are using this code (unless you count the developers). Maybe Yahoo will actually make their end of year deadline for "all users" [1], we'll see. They have less than two months left to do so. My knowledge of Google's end-to-end attempt leaves me skeptical, and not because this is any sort of a technical challenge, but because it's a political challenge.
[1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption