![]() ![]() What’s interesting is that, for the last 15 years of using said account, I never really needed to log into Yahoo directly, I simply used Microsoft Outlook and eventually Mozilla Thunderbird to download and manage all my mail through POP and IMAP. Well, I’ll be honest, I actually do have a couple of accounts open with the service, mainly because they were my first email accounts set up the oldest of which is 17 years old – they grow up so fast. Being the tech enthusiast that I am, you’d think I would have dropped Yahoo long ago. ![]() No email service is perfect, but most are better than the sorry state that Yahoo has been left in all this time. The interface became slow, more ads piled on, then throw in a security breach that took over two years to find, the recent scandal involving the NSA, and another confirmed breech of an older hack… it’s about time to switch providers. While it may have started out as one of the original founding free email services along with Hotmail (later renamed Live, then Outlook), Yahoo Mail has suffered from years of neglect. ![]() Now, is it too much to hope that AOL might be the next to implement a HTTPS option for its email service?įollow on Twitter for the latest computer security news.Yahoo Mail has been falling out of favor with users for a long time now. Hopefully in time, Yahoo will decide to enable the option by default – as it is with Gmail, Hotmail and. It’s unfortunate that Yahoo has made the HTTPS/SSL setting disabled by default, meaning that users are required to turn it on if they want better privacy. Select “Options/Mail Options” on your main Yahoo Mail screen.If you are using Yahoo Mail, my advice is to enable this privacy option as soon as possible. That’s because, without HTTPS, they are sent as unencrypted text. ![]() If you don’t have full-session HTTPS turned on for your webmail, anybody on your WiFi network could read any of the emails you write and receive using a tool like FireSheep, as they are transmitted from Yahoo to your browser. Yahoo Mail has lagged behind competitors such as Hotmail (in the process of being rebranded ) and Gmail by not allowing users to access their email through HTTPS. It has taken Yahoo a ridiculously long time, but it is finally rolling out an option that will help protect users’ privacy when accessing their web-based email – HTTPS. ![]()
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