It's ridiculous that Yahoo! would implement changes of this nature in light of all of the negative publicity concerning NSA (and possibly other entities) spying on us. Even before the Edward Snowden leaks, I was leery about submitting my phone number to sites like Google and Yahoo!.
I do not accept being spied on - and I don't really have anything significant to hide or to be ashamed of. They say that the spying is of a very limited, minimally-invasive scope (that is - if you're not a terrorist-in-the-making) but I do not really buy that - especially since I have reason to believe that I, personally, have been violated in ways that involve snooping in on the actual content of my communications.
The argument of "If you don't have anything to hide - then why worry?" - is self-serving bunk. I mean, I also don't have anything to hide when I sit at my kitchen table and eat cereal in the morning - but this doesn't mean that people have the right to install hidden cameras and watch me eat cereal every morning.
~Svetaswan
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Both gmail and yahoo urged me many times to give a mobile number, so that in case the password was forgotten, they would sms a new one. So if someone knows your e-mail-address and steals or borrows your mobile phone ( if you have one and responded to the request "in your best interest" ), then he or she can easily change your password and take over your whole e-mail-account ( if i am not mistaken here ; ) )
Probably these i-phones, blueberries and whatever already give already access to information about e-mail-addresses, which makes such an abuse even more simple. Maybe in the future the bastards will demand a microphone-chip-implant if you refuse to carry around a modern mobile device. Personally i happen not to care if people spy on me, as long as they do not hinder or damage this biological functioning entity that's called me in the process, with radiation for instance.
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Maybe you could set up a blog at like blogspot.com or something like that.
You would need to establish a format since that isn't actually a group site, necessarily.Ã But to my understanding it is free.Ã It may require more effort.Ã Maybe it could be organized as a group instead of an individual running a group.
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From: Marc Martin < marc@... >
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Subject: [eSens] New Yahoo accounts require cellphones to activate!
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Hi all,
I was reading on another group that new accounts on Yahoo
require a cellphone, so they can text you a confirmation code.
I'd say that this is yet another strike against using YahooGroups
in the future for this group. However, I'm still undecided as to
where we would go... is anyone here subscribed to discussion
groups (or runs discussion groups) on places other than YahooGroups
that they think would be suitable? I'd still like to maintain
something that has a strong email capability -- typically I find
web forums to be too easy to ignore...
Thanks!
Marc
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