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Wow.... i can't imagine what if something like this will happen to Google or Facebook. If it happened to Yahoo, why not to them?
by ezraroi 13y ago
Wow.... i can't imagine what if something like this will happen to Google or Facebook. If it happened to Yahoo, why not to them?
- w1ntermute 13y agoYahoo! Japan is an entity separate from Yahoo!. It is a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank (a Japanese telecom). And to put this in context, IT in Japan is about a decade behind the West.
- hkmurakami 13y agoHopefully the newer generation of companies (GREE, DeNA, Line, etc) will change the way things are, acting as a catalyst.
- w1ntermute 13y agoThere are definitely a lot of opportunities for innovation in Japan. This excellent post by a co-founder of MakeLeaps, an invoicing startup founded by gaijin, covers some of the difficulties (and opportunities): http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/05/everything-ive-learned-about-selling-saas-in-japan/ http://www.makeleaps.jp/blog/en/2012/05/everything-ive-learn...
- robertlaing 13y agoThis is a gross generalization. Sure, plenty of companies are behind. But quite a few are too in the US... http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_... I'm also not sure that "new" means more secure in this kind of context either. LinkedIn ain't exactly ancient and had a similar breach last year.
- rurounijones 13y agoI would characterize the comment as more like "Attitudes towards development practices are a decade behind" (rather that the tech itself necessarily) which sounds pretty accurate[1] for most Japanese companies that are not part of the newer "Gree" wave. [1] Anecdotal data etc etc.
- dicemoose 13y agoWhat you're stating is a gross generalization and untrue in a literal sense (probably easy to realize if you remember how things were a decade ago). While Y!J and Y!Inc are separate entities, the former does borrow/use technology from the former and some of the Y!J services use Y!Inc servers and/or services maintained by Y!Inc. Y!J user ids are completely separate from Y!Inc though (Y!Inc ids are shared through out the Y! locales). It's been almost a decade since I was at Y!J, but from what I understand Y!J does continue to leverage the Y!Inc relationship for services and servers. Additionally, simply stating that old technology is the reason for a security breach could be a red herring, it isn't always the age of the technology but how it is implemented.
- hkmurakami 13y agoI was under the impression that Yahoo Japan and Yahoo are distinct entities. Do the two services actually share common infrastructure?
- dicemoose 13y agoYes, they share some common infrastructure.
- jmathai 13y agoIt's happened to both. Normally this doesn't get out and is the result of a phishing scam.