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Flickr's (and Yahoo's) account handling is terrible, but your story isn't an example of that. You don't know your password, don't know the associated phone num

Flickr's (and Yahoo's) account handling is terrible, but your story isn't an example of that. You don't know your password, don't know the associated phone number, and can't check the associated email. You're lacking every credential required for access, so WTF do you expect them to do that wouldn't also be a huge security loophole? If you can call and get access, then anybody could call and get access, so they're erring on the right side here as far as I'm concerned.

bigbugbag 10y ago
How could it not be ? Yahoo's handling of flickr push user away for years. do you remember the password of that email account you have not used for 5 years ? good not try to log in and discover that this address has been deleted or reclaimed by hotmail for being inactive. Do you still have the phone number you had in 2005 ? chances are you have changed several times. I don't even know most of my current passwords, I never give my phone number for privacy reason (still have about 2-3 telemarketers calls a day for having given it a few times in the past) and I usually can't check the associated email because I don't even remember which temporary email address service I used to register with your service to protect myself from the spam and reselling of my address. I've learned a lot since the 90's and I trust the web services for exploiting, reselling any piece of info I may give them so everything is single use or fake, it has proven very effective at keeping annoyances at a very low level. Funny that you would mention a potential security issue when yahoo's credentials and user data has been breached, twice.