Re: DMARC -> CERT?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Howard <scott () doc net au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well
> > > > > into the weekend for most of the world).
> > > > On the weekend before tax filings are due in the US!  And a couple of
> > > > days
> > > > before Passover.
> > > and in the middle of Heartbleed.....
> >
> > You might have had a point - if it had been ANY of those.  Other than the
> > original claim of "Friday afternoon" it was none of those things.
>
> 7-April: Monday, Yahoo's dmarc change kicks everyone in the groin, the
> last full week before the US tax filing deadline.
>
> 7-April: OpenSSL's *public* advisory (after a full week of private
> notifications, of which yahoo surely was one tech company in on the
> early notifications)
>
> 11-April: Yahoo discusses what needs to be done on their public tumblr account.
14-April: 1st night of Passover
15-April: Tax Filings due in the US

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