holdenkarau writes “Yahoo!’s acquisition of open source mail client Zimbra has apparently brought some baggage to the mail team. The new Yahoo! desktop program transmits the authentication information in plain text. The flaw was discovered during a Yahoo ‘hacku’ Day at the University of Waterloo (the only Canadian school part of the trip). Compared to the recent news about Gmail exposing the …

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