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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by grafporno on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:18PM (#14547191)
> We bolstered our security defenses with cross-company initiatives like SSL, HTML5, Account Key, and HTTPS

Wat. HTML5 is a security measure now?

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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by aphextron on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:24PM (#14548295)
Sure it is. Replacing the main use cases for Flash with native HTML5 video and Canvas elements is a big win for security. That wasn't fully possible for sites like Yahoo with a lot of legacy users until just the past couple years.
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Re:Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer ... by mtgx on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @04:29PM (#14548333)
And was that before or after they allowed the NSA access to their servers?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yahoo-government-...

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