http://simonwillison.net/2008-09-22T16:21:41+00:00Simon Willison2008-09-22T16:21:41+00:002008-09-22T16:21:41+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/22/yahoo/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/ed-felten/2008/09/22/how-yahoo-could-have-protected-palins-email"><p>Yahoo could also have followed Gmail's lead, and disabled the security-question mechanism unless no logged-in user had accessed the account for five days. This clever trick prevents password "recovery" when there is evidence that somebody who knows the password is actively using the account.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/ed-felten/2008/09/22/how-yahoo-could-have-protected-palins-email">Ed Felten</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/forgottenpasswords">forgottenpasswords</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gmail">gmail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/webmail">webmail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>