Yahoo! Timestamps! Now! Block! Facebook! Email! Snoops!

  • 24 October 2014
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By Darren Pauli, 24 Oct 2014
 
Facebook has begun using a Yahoo! email standard created in August last year to prevent snooping through the acquisition of old addresses.
The standard dubbed dryly Require-Recipient-Valid-Since (RRVS) informs Facebook and others of the last point in time ownership of an email address was know
 
Facebook software engineer Murray Kucherawy said it knew it had to 'study closely' last year's Yahoo! dormant email address revival, a move much derided by the security community for the risk of third-party account hijacking through password resets.
 
 
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