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A security researcher says he bagged $10k after discovering and reporting a serious flaw in Yahoo! Mail that could have been exploited by crooks to read victims' messages. Jouko Pynnönen says he reported the vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail via bug-bounty organizers HackerOne. "The impact of the bug is similar to the one I …

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  1. Fizzle
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    Check the cheque

    That'll be $10k cheque dumbass.

    Why don't you check it's cheque for yourself? I suggest a good English dictionary such as the "Oxford".

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    1. DNTP
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      Re: Check the cheque

      This is like the huge fight we had at my company over weather the word "fax" as in "fax machine" was an acronym (it's not!), except that argument was actually funny and no one got called a dumbass.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Check the cheque

        >This is like the huge fight we had at my company over weather the word "fax" as in "fax machine" was an acronym (it's not!), except that argument was actually funny and no one got called a dumbass.

        It's whether.

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        1. DNTP
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          Yeah I did that ironically, I thought it would be funny.

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        2. Anonymous Coward
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          "It's whether."

          It's spelled whether.

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      2. Ilsa Loving
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        Re: Check the cheque

        *whether

        I mean, since it's obviously Needlessly Pedantic Day, judging from the rest of the comments.

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      3. Sir Runcible Spoon
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        Re: Check the cheque

        ""fax" as in "fax machine" was an acronym (it's not!)"

        I always understood it to be short for facsimile.

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      4. gentry_lucas
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        Re: Check the cheque

        whether not weather...

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    2. notanumber
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      >That'll be $10k cheque dumbass.

      That'll be dumbarse, dumbarse.

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    3. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: Check the cheque

      Here in the US it's check.

      C.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Check the cheque

        Do you notice that .co.uk in the address bar?

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        1. liac
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          Re: Check the cheque

          Agree with the URL comment...in this case, "when in (virtual) Rome....do as the Romans do".

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        2. Anonymous Coward
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          "Do you notice that .co.uk in the address bar?"

          So whenever you post to a ".com" site, do you use U.S. spelling? I'm a Canadian so I am bilingual - I read and write both kinds of English.

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      2. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: Check the cheque

        Its a check in the US....Well it shouldn't be!

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    4. MR J
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      Re: Check the cheque

      I like how you point the writer towards Oxford but failed to do that yourself.

      https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/check

      Noun - 4

      US spelling of cheque

      Example sentences

      ‘He sent divorce papers for Rose to sign and a check for ten thousand dollars "to tide you over."’

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  2. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge

    Yahoo! is! in! the! USA!

    So it's a "check."

    The more interesting point is that Yahoo still had $10000.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Misread as $10

    And though that was a typical response from Yahoo.

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    1. Adam 1
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      Re: Misread as $10

      You are right. It was a terrible misunderstanding. The cheque was actually for $10!!!

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  4. Ilsa Loving

    Good old Bobby Tables

    Yahoo needs to read more XKCD:

    https://xkcd.com/327/

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  5. Steve Knox

    $10,000?

    That's, like $1,000 per Yahoo! mail user!

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: $10,000?

      Nope, since ATT uses them. I use to do DSL support for ATT first month there I was like how are so many off ATT customers are having their email hacked.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Yahoo is the US so it's check.

    cheque in the US is a bill. I'll get the cheque.

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    1. Sir Runcible Spoon
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      "Yahoo is the US"

      They're more screwed than I thought then.

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    2. Prst. V.Jeltz Silver badge
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      "is the US so it's check."

      wasnt the word 'check' already used?

      did anyone check?

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