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thewayneSo Yahoo was affected by the Heartbleed bug and unsurprisingly seems not inclined to talk about it or force/suggest a password change. So I decided to change my password in advance.
My password methodology for certain accounts is to use a keyword plus a signifier, two words, let's call it A + B. I wanted to change it to C + A + B so it would be easy to remember. Yahoo said nyet, it's TOO CLOSE to my original password. The password change form asks you for your current password, then enter the new password twice. Your password is compared, in your device's memory, using some algorithm which didn't like my scheme. So I changed it to an expletive starting with an F, which Yahoo accepted. Then I did a second change from F... to C + A + B.
Mission finally accomplished.
My password methodology for certain accounts is to use a keyword plus a signifier, two words, let's call it A + B. I wanted to change it to C + A + B so it would be easy to remember. Yahoo said nyet, it's TOO CLOSE to my original password. The password change form asks you for your current password, then enter the new password twice. Your password is compared, in your device's memory, using some algorithm which didn't like my scheme. So I changed it to an expletive starting with an F, which Yahoo accepted. Then I did a second change from F... to C + A + B.
Mission finally accomplished.
