{"id":2355,"date":"2013-05-06T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:12:54","slug":"yahoos-unusual-activity-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/06\/yahoos-unusual-activity-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;unusual activity&#8221; detector&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rather like this. I guess it could feel like an invasion of privacy &#8211; but the truth is: all web companies have been tracking you like this since the late 1990&#8217;s. Until now &#8230; they used the data, but never shared it with the you, the user. This is so much better:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-06-at-10.56.42.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-05-06 at 10.56.42\" width=\"843\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-06-at-10.56.42.png 843w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-06-at-10.56.42-150x40.png 150w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-06-at-10.56.42-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-06-at-10.56.42-624x170.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Note how it&#8217;s &#8220;with <strong>valid<\/strong> password&#8221; &#8211; this isn&#8217;t a mere &#8220;someone tried to login and failed&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s someone succeeded, but Yahoo&#8217;s noticed this isn&#8217;t a usual login IP address \/ location for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(2013 is looking interesting: As <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/05\/02\/microsoft-weve-migrated-400m-hotmail-users-to-outlook-com\/\">Microsoft kills hotmail<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/31\/the-new-gmail-downgraded-hated-by-users\/\">Google makes radically unpopular changes<\/a> to their services &#8230; Yahoo seems to be the one doing good (after years of negligect, of course))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rather like this. I guess it could feel like an invasion of privacy &#8211; but the truth is: all web companies have been tracking you like this since the late 1990&#8217;s. Until now &#8230; they used the data, but never shared it with the you, the user. This is so much better:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}