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posted by on Wednesday January 11 2017, @06:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the more-golden-parachutes dept.

Despite hiccups, Yahoo's planned sale to Verizon appears to be moving forward — but some portions of the company will be left behind and renamed Altaba Inc.

Yahoo is hanging on to its 15 percent stake in Alibaba and its 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo Japan, and those assets will survive as an investment company under the new name Altaba Inc., as the rest of Yahoo integrates with Verizon. The assets had previously been nicknamed Remain Co.

Only five board members will remain at Altaba: Tor Braham, Eric Brandt, Catherine Friedman, Thomas McInerney and Jeffrey Smith. The rest of Yahoo's board, including CEO Marissa Mayer, will step down from the newly formed company. Mayer may be tapped for a role in Yahoo's integration at Verizon, but her position has yet to be announced.

Also at CNET, Reuters, Bloomberg, and CNN.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:48AM (#452401)

    "Alt-Tab-A" A three fingered salute. The middle "t" is both silent, and invisible. Does this mean I will have to get a new throw-away email account?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:54AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:54AM (#452405) Journal

    https://protonmail.com/ [protonmail.com]

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    • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Friday January 13 2017, @12:40PM

      by Justin Case (4239) on Friday January 13 2017, @12:40PM (#453262) Journal

      we are continuing to develop state of the art email privacy and security technology

      Javascript is required to sign up.

      Clue fail. No thanks.
      At least it is exposed early, before one wastes time and treasure.

      • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday January 13 2017, @03:30PM

        by urza9814 (3954) on Friday January 13 2017, @03:30PM (#453334) Journal

        we are continuing to develop state of the art email privacy and security technology

        Javascript is required to sign up.

        Clue fail. No thanks.
        At least it is exposed early, before one wastes time and treasure.

        You'd prefer what exactly -- send the data and your public/private encryption keys to them and let them process it server-side? Secure encryption requires client-side code of some sort, and if it's browser-based that pretty much means Javascript. I mean you could use some binary blob plugin thing, but that's certainly not an improvement...

        I'm with you on the whole issue of JS code being overused and abused, but that doesn't mean that every single website that has ever used it is problematic. Sometimes it *is* actually the best tool for the job.

        • (Score: 2) by Justin Case on Saturday January 14 2017, @01:03AM

          by Justin Case (4239) on Saturday January 14 2017, @01:03AM (#453648) Journal

          You'd prefer what exactly -- send the data and your public/private encryption keys to them

          Hell no.

          Secure encryption requires client-side code of some sort

          Yes, but why do I have to accept the crypto code from them? Accepting any executable code from them (including script) is equivalent to handing them the plaintext of all my email, which, I thought, was the problem we were trying to avoid.

          I'll get my crypto from someplace I trust. I was simply hoping for someone who might transport the bits without logging all my contacts and how often I talk to them. Too much to ask for I guess.

          • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:22PM

            by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday January 17 2017, @04:22PM (#454941) Journal

            Yes, but why do I have to accept the crypto code from them? Accepting any executable code from them (including script) is equivalent to handing them the plaintext of all my email, which, I thought, was the problem we were trying to avoid.

            Well, if they're the service provider you choose to trust, then yes. Personally, I wouldn't. My point is just that the fact that they use Javascript isn't itself a reason to distrust them or the code. In fact, Javascript is kinda inherently open source. Visit the website, read the code, you can know if it's trustworthy. On the other hand, if you can't verify their Javascript, you probably can't verify the code for something like Thunderbird and Enigmail either, so going that route isn't much better.

            I'll get my crypto from someplace I trust. I was simply hoping for someone who might transport the bits without logging all my contacts and how often I talk to them. Too much to ask for I guess.

            Well, then you aren't in the market for the product Proton Mail is offering. Fair enough, neither am I. That's why I use Thunderbird and Enigmail.

            If you want to criticize them, criticize the fact that they aren't using standard protocols which results in user communications being trapped within the ProtonMail system. But that's got nothing to do with them using Javascript. They ought to be using PGP, but PGP through Javascript wouldn't be an unreasonable proposition. I've got a website that does that actually, so that users can send more secure messages through a web form without needing any setup (of course, the mail -- even when being read -- never leaves the local network of the web server, and that connection is secured with SSL, but you can never be too careful...)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @07:56AM (#452407)

    I typed Alt-Tab-A and nothing happened. Please advise.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:12AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:12AM (#452412)

      Have you tried turning it off?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 11 2017, @08:01AM (#452409)