Nope. Most of the originals have fled; the few who remain have been renamed something lame. (I forget the exact name but I'm sure it contains some or all of the Standard Yahoo Corporate Buzzwords, which are: Global, Platform, Initiative, Strategy, and Partnership.)

They renamed the paranoids? That's the most depressing yahoo news I've heard in a while. Makes it seem like they're trying to squeeze out any last hints of engineering culture :/

Ouch :(

I guess it all started when Arturo left for FB.

They did, and their influence will still be there. If this really did come from a Yahoo service it was likely some sort of co-branded partner. All core Yahoo apps authenticate against a central service with no hint of any sort of plain text credentials stored anywhere.

If it's on the yahoo.com domain then it has to go through the login servers. No one else can issue the Y/T cookies they use for authentication.

Almost definitely laid off / working elsewhere at this point in time.

Can't forget that this 'dream team' also failed to catch the fact that they released their private signing key with the Axis chrome extension.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/24/yahoo-leaks-its-o...

which happened well after the dismantling of the Paranoids

From what I heard a couple of years back, no Yahoo product is allowed into the wild without paranoid approval.