On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well into the weekend for most of the world).
On the weekend before tax filings are due in the US! And a couple of days before Passover.
and in the middle of Heartbleed.....
You might have had a point - if it had been ANY of those. Other than the original claim of "Friday afternoon" it was none of those things.
7-April: Monday, Yahoo's dmarc change kicks everyone in the groin, the last full week before the US tax filing deadline. 7-April: OpenSSL's *public* advisory (after a full week of private notifications, of which yahoo surely was one tech company in on the early notifications) 11-April: Yahoo discusses what needs to be done on their public tumblr account. -Jim P.