YAHOO MAIL FORWARD PASSWORD
Mail forwarding is a risky feature, because a crook who manages to turn it on unlawfully can effectively take over your account in a way that isn’t as obvious as changing your password.Īlso, once a crook has forwarded your email, even if he does change your password to keep you out, he’s able to read it without logging back into your account. We’ll give Yahoo the benefit of the doubt and assume that security is the cause. That’s led to suggestions that Yahoo has done this deliberately as a sort of “lock-in”, in the hope of discouraging users from leaving the service following the recent negative news stories. In short, forwarding mail from service X to service Y often means that X pays, but Y benefits. One popular use for mail forwarding is as a temporary measure to help you migrate from one email service to another, so that you don’t have to keep logging on to two different websites until you’ve told everyone your new email address. Mail forwarding is pretty much what it says: email received by one server is automatically redirected to another, just as you might forward your PO Box in one town to a new box in another town if you moved house. The latest bad news for Yahoo surrounds the fact that its mail forwarding service has recently been suspended, at least for anyone who isn’t already using it. Nevertheless, Yahoo’s competitors wasted no time stating not only that they’d never received such a demand, but also that they’d have fought it publicly if ever they had received one.
Next came allegations that Yahoo may have searched its email database for an unknown set of keywords at the official request of US authorities.Īctually, as we wrote at the time, the “official request” was more of a “ classified demand,” which is not at all the same thing. (Mayer, you may remember, famously welcomed Apple’s iPhone fingerprint scanner by admitting she didn’t lock her phone, admitting that she “ can’t do this passcode thing, like, 15 times a day.”)Īlthough adopting a mandatory password reset policy doesn’t prevent breaches, and is always a last resort, it didn’t reflect very well on Yahoo’s security attitude to hear that it apparently decided to put ongoing user convenience ahead of security, even after a catastrophe. That news was followed by claims that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, had previously put the kibosh on a policy requiring passwords to be reset in the event of a breach, apparently because password resets, no matter how desirable they might be in an emergency, are annoying to users.
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