I'm trying to sign up for Flickr, which is a Yahoo property. Do I have a Yahoo email? I dunno, maybe at one point, who cares? Oh, "dstorrs" is taken? Fine, let me see if that was more then.
Off to http://yahoo.com/. Hm...where do I log in?
Ok, forget that. I bet it's http://mail.yahoo.com/. Yep.
Ok, try some of my standard "low-priority site" passwords. Nope, none get me in.
Click "Help! I've forgotten my password and I can't get up!"
After some middling steps, they ask me for my alternate address. In small font, generated by Javascript so that you can't cut/paste it and (in theory) a harvester won't see it, they say "Hint: Your alternate email is ***********@e********.net"
I kid you not. So, basically, I know that the account name that I was probing for is "dstorrs", and I know that the domain is earthlink.net.
I'm reminded of a card named "Filter" from the old Netrunner CCG The flavor text was along the lines of "Yes, it will let you in if you got the password mostly right--but hey, at least it's free!" (*)
(*) Yes, I'm a geek and yes, the Internet knows everything. Actually the text was "Friendly even to numerically challenged employees, it accepts transposed numerals in the access codes." I think my version was funnier. And the card was a zero cost [i.e., free] Code Gate.
Off to http://yahoo.com/. Hm...where do I log in?
Ok, forget that. I bet it's http://mail.yahoo.com/. Yep.
Ok, try some of my standard "low-priority site" passwords. Nope, none get me in.
Click "Help! I've forgotten my password and I can't get up!"
After some middling steps, they ask me for my alternate address. In small font, generated by Javascript so that you can't cut/paste it and (in theory) a harvester won't see it, they say "Hint: Your alternate email is ***********@e********.net"
I kid you not. So, basically, I know that the account name that I was probing for is "dstorrs", and I know that the domain is earthlink.net.
I'm reminded of a card named "Filter" from the old Netrunner CCG The flavor text was along the lines of "Yes, it will let you in if you got the password mostly right--but hey, at least it's free!" (*)
(*) Yes, I'm a geek and yes, the Internet knows everything. Actually the text was "Friendly even to numerically challenged employees, it accepts transposed numerals in the access codes." I think my version was funnier. And the card was a zero cost [i.e., free] Code Gate.