First Click: My Yahoo! story

I had a three-character Yahoo password until 2015. No, I’m not proud of my lax internet security, but consider how neatly that little fact sums up Yahoo’s demise this century. In the 17 years I’ve had a Yahoo account, I’ve never cared to meaningfully secure it, Yahoo has never cared to force me to do so, and hackers, who could break into my account in their sleep, have never cared to try. That, dear friends, is a tale of sinking into utter online irrelevance.Continue read