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[Mike Williams]

Heehee. I would love to know what kind of equation they're using that 
calls that password "weak". Maybe it translates to "we store our 
passwords in plaintext and we can't handle one that long."

On 1/7/2013 8:28 AM, Edwardo Fuentes wrote:
> I had a few of these email in the last week also.  Tried  to change my 
> yahoo password using last pass.  A 25 character password with special 
> symbols, uppercase letters & numbers ; 
> randomly generated was flagged as "weak" would not allow me 
> to advance.  I decided to terminate my yahoo account.
>
>
> Edwardo
> 616.834.3023
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net 
> <mailto:topher at codeventure.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/07/2013 08:02 AM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>     > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 12:32:26AM -0500, Josh wrote:
>     >> sweet we got a spammer -- are you sure you want to spam this list?
>     >
>     > I received another spam from him mailed directly to me...and the
>     Ubuntu
>     > News list. :)
>
>     There was a big rash of hacked Yahoo accounts the other day.
>      Several of
>     my clients sent me the same stuff and had no idea.
>
>     This person probably has no idea it's happening at all.
>
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