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My business account is on Office 365 and the emails that come in from the system go into my Junk folder. I took a quick look at the headers and didn't notice anything obvious. Perhaps the body is to short and with the link it looks suspicious??
Other than that, I got 2 email notifications that the email is available and then another 2 emails with the success after the signature.
As for licensing MS technology, I highly recommend the Bizspark program. You can register a company for $50 at Registres des Entreprises and that's all you need. You will get free licenses for 3 years that you get to keep plus a whole bunch of Azure discounts. BTW, the licensing of Windows and VS are pretty much negligible in any business. SQL server on the other hand is cost prohibitive, but that is where you can use PostgreSQL.
MS is slowly changing, adopting more and more open source, github, mono. I think they are transforming their business from selling licenses to subscriptions (like Office).
From my perspective the accounts are not shared, so you needed to register there to create an account. We don't share databases. Also, it is not our company and operates completely independent from us. This is what I meant by not affiliated. Hope that clears it up.
Using chat.youporn.com is not that different than using ypchat.com, personally I would have preferred the latter for obvious reasons.
We spoke to the owners about the issue and they are really some of the nicest people we've met. They really did not have malicious intentions.
That issue brought the privacy flaw to the forefront, and certainly the adult industry pushes those limits. We always strive to respect industry best practices regarding privacy, especially around cookie handling. We constantly review privacy policies around the world.
We are currently in very close discussions with the 3rd party. In our official statement we purposely did not name them, we don't want to throw them under the bus. Of course we are reviewing all obligations.
We do deal with multiple security firms, and we regularly do security audits (both white and black box audits). We also deal with PCI, because we have paying sites as well, like Brazzers.
We can talk about the industry in general another time, but obviously we believe all types of sites can co-exist.
We've been focusing on the rewrite of the main site and are now cleaning up all the secondary dependencies.
It's unfortunate that people are associating chat.youporn.com to the actual YouPorn.com site, but they are not affiliated at all. It was operated by a completely separate entity, which we've obviously closed as soon as we discovered it. The accounts on chat.youporn.com are different than the accounts on YouPorn. Though as was mentioned, it is probably that some have re-used the same username password combination that is highly unrecommended for all you folks out there (if you read Hacker News, you already know that).
As for password policies, I've been enforcing hashing of passwords ever since joining, though as we inherit a lot of old code and sites we correct issues such as that as we come across them.
I'll be around for a while, if anyone wants to ask questions.
Sam Johnston's approach seems to be so much simpler especially for a startup. http://wiki.cloudcommunity.org/wiki/Main_Page
Don't worry too much about the Silverlight installation. If the product is good, that won't be a barrier.
I also believe RIA apps are much better than AJAX based apps.