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RE: [inbox] Re: This sums up Yahoo!s security policy to a -T-
From: Bart.Lansing () kohls com
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:56:09 -0600
Exibar, IANAL...are you? However, you do know that inheritence laws differ from state to state and that in dealing with Yahoo! we are dealing with an international? Also, I remain unconvinced of your assertion that a default inheritor owns digital records. Can you cite case law to support your contention please? "Exibar" <exibar () thelair com> wrote on 12/25/2004 12:49:10 AM:
His parents become the gardians of his estate by default (assuming he wasn't married or had children). His parents now own everything that man had while alive, digital and physical. Same thing as if I had died, my wife would inherit everything that I own. Yahoo's only in need of a legal document stating that, then they will have to relinquish the password for his account. If they do so before they receive this document, then they are breaking their own policies. Exibar -----Original Message----- From: Bart.Lansing () kohls com [mailto:Bart.Lansing () kohls com] Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 10:41 AM To: Exibar Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com; full-disclosure-bounces@lists. netsys.com; morning_wood Subject: [inbox] Re: [Full-disclosure] This sums up Yahoo!s security policy to a -T-
Exibar wrote on 12/23/2004 09:36:40 AM:I applaud Yahoo for adhearing to their policies. All the familly has
to do
is send legal documents of their son's death, and legal documents
stating
who they are. At that point I'm sure the account information will be released as per Yahoo's policy. Instead of trying to get the media involved, they should be getting
their
laywer involved as the clock's ticking on the 90 no-activity delete.
Their
lawyer will know the correct documents to send over to yahoo as proof
of
their son's death and that his parents have control over their dead
son's
belongings/estate. Perhaps what yahoo *could* do, or *should* do, is remove the 90 day time-out on their son's e-mail account until they can have a chance of
going
through the courts. Perhaps extend it up to 365 days... ExibarWe're goint to disagree here... His parents have no right to access his mail account, period. It's not theirs, and unless he stated in a will or prior release that these electronic records should be released...and to whom...they should vanish when his account does. These are not memoirs or a diary, or a bundle of written letters which could be argued was knowingly left behind with a high probability of discovery. These are electronic records deposited with a trusted entity with the expectation of safekeeping and privacy. Yahoo "should" violate their own policies in order to facilitate releasing this email into the hands of people who are not owners of those records? I think not.----- Original Message ----- From: "morning_wood" <se_cur_ity () hotmail com> To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] This sums up Yahoo!s security policy to
a -T-
If their refusal to release that mail even after their customer is
dead
isan indication as to their privacy practices, three cheers for
Yahoo.
Don't you get the whole "slippery slope" thing? If it's ok when
you're
dead (which it's not, my stuff is my stuff...destroy it when
you're sure
I've really shuffled off elsewhere, unless I gave you very
specific
instructions otherwise) then maybe it's ok if you are in a
coma...then
maybe it's ok if you are really sick and someone else is your
legal
guardian becaue you've been declared non-compos mentis...then
maybe it's
ok if it's your parents...or your wife...or a concerned
neighbor...
What's in that mailbox is/was mine, none of your business unless I
chose
to share it.i couldnt agree more... another case of lame, illogical media
bullshit
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