Follow The Yahoo! Changing Mail Story

from the watch-it-go... dept

As is fairly obvious, I read way too much technology news. It's sometimes interesting to me to follow how a news story travels through various news sites, though. Most interesting is seeing who credits who for the finds. So, last Friday, NTK posted the story of Yahoo changing emails to protect people from random javascript attacks. They credit RISKS digest, who pointed out the problem well over a year ago. On Monday, Declan McCullugh put the story (from NTK) into his Politech mailing list. Declan, of course, recently joined the staff at News.com, so it's no surprise to find another News.com reporter publishing the same story on Wednesday. They credit NTK, though, it's hidden at the bottom. Now, Reuters has taken the story and published their own version where they credit News.com for discovering the "flaw". I'm not sure it's fair to give News.com credit for digging this up, but I guess that's how it goes. Now, of course, we can expect all the various news sites that simply republish Reuters feeds to take that story Thursday and publish it.