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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386349 https://news.ycombina

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13654513 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386349 I still don't have my flickr account. Here's the response from Yahoo Concierge: https://imgur.com/a/smjuL https://imgur.com/a/smjuL The employees at Yahoo have been kind and helpful to me. But the bureaucracy is a rotted waste who just doesn't care. What am I supposed to do? Why can't you just allow accepting verification documentation like FB and Blizzard does. The engineers are great. The managers are great. But the rotten core would screw over tens of thousands of people locked out of their account so as to not make one mistake with an identity theft. How can I be sure my account wasn't one of the ones hacked in one of their many security fiascos? I'm just exhausted.

arjie 10y ago
If the information you can provide doesn't match, what would you prefer they do? (Going off the picture you shared here)
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- git-pull 10y ago
  Accept the mountains of information I've provided them: - Picture of me with my driver's license (which has logins from the area) - Sworn oath under penalty of perjury - Proof photos in my public account are linked to me (I have pics of a laptop with an xmonad config open which is the same as my GH) https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2741/4437425032_a059639217_o_d.jpg https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2741/4437425032_a059639217_o_... == https://github.com/tony/xmonad-config/blob/master/xmonad https://github.com/tony/xmonad-config/blob/master/xmonad
  - arjie 10y ago
    The fact that you can present the Credit Cards that were used for billing and then the bank can prove provenance and all that is in your name would be pretty convincing to me. I'm surprised by their strict adherence to policy here.
mkagenius 10y ago
Just thinking out loud, doesn't your flickr account have any photo of yours which is public? If so, share some links and your id card?
ryanlol 10y ago
>Why can't you just allow accepting verification documentation like FB and Blizzard does. How do you expect them to verify that documentation without having it on file already?
- git-pull 10y ago
  That's exactly the problem. They're not willing to take information except what they prescribe. They didn't require much much in the first place. You can't be Yahoo, turn around after you require too little verifying information in the beginning, then place tens of thousands of accounts in stasis, when people are piling up willing to move mountains to show that it's really them. After they've been hacked, how can I be sure that my info wasn't changed? What about with flickr had transitions, was any identifying on the accounts lost? The photos I have can be matched to other public information I have on the net. I've provided those details already. My name is on the account. I was a flickr pro customer. I could give them my billing info of CC's I had around the time. Blizzard doesn't keep driver's licenses on file before hand, but they use it to prove identity.
  - ryanlol 10y ago
    >Blizzard doesn't keep driver's licenses on file before hand, but they use it to prove identity. My point was mostly that this is silly. I reset my battle.net account with a fake that took less than 15 minutes to make.

arjie 10y ago

If the information you can provide doesn't match, what would you prefer they do? (Going off the picture you shared here)

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git-pull 10y ago
Accept the mountains of information I've provided them: - Picture of me with my driver's license (which has logins from the area) - Sworn oath under penalty of perjury - Proof photos in my public account are linked to me (I have pics of a laptop with an xmonad config open which is the same as my GH) https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2741/4437425032_a059639217_o_d.jpg https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2741/4437425032_a059639217_o_... == https://github.com/tony/xmonad-config/blob/master/xmonad https://github.com/tony/xmonad-config/blob/master/xmonad
- arjie 10y ago
  The fact that you can present the Credit Cards that were used for billing and then the bank can prove provenance and all that is in your name would be pretty convincing to me. I'm surprised by their strict adherence to policy here.

mkagenius 10y ago

Just thinking out loud, doesn't your flickr account have any photo of yours which is public? If so, share some links and your id card?

ryanlol 10y ago

>Why can't you just allow accepting verification documentation like FB and Blizzard does. How do you expect them to verify that documentation without having it on file already?

git-pull 10y ago
That's exactly the problem. They're not willing to take information except what they prescribe. They didn't require much much in the first place. You can't be Yahoo, turn around after you require too little verifying information in the beginning, then place tens of thousands of accounts in stasis, when people are piling up willing to move mountains to show that it's really them. After they've been hacked, how can I be sure that my info wasn't changed? What about with flickr had transitions, was any identifying on the accounts lost? The photos I have can be matched to other public information I have on the net. I've provided those details already. My name is on the account. I was a flickr pro customer. I could give them my billing info of CC's I had around the time. Blizzard doesn't keep driver's licenses on file before hand, but they use it to prove identity.
- ryanlol 10y ago
  >Blizzard doesn't keep driver's licenses on file before hand, but they use it to prove identity. My point was mostly that this is silly. I reset my battle.net account with a fake that took less than 15 minutes to make.