Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Howard <sc...@doc.net.au> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch <jim...@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.
14-April: 1st night of Passover
15-April: Tax Filings due in the US
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
