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Greywolf asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 7 years ago

How do I report a security breach in Yahoo Answers?

Someone has changed the answerer's name on this question http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201... from "GreyWolf" to "Answerer No. 1".

Yahoo, this ought to be impossible. Anyone who can do this has access to be able to completely mess with the whole of YA.

When you rewrote YA, you clearly introduced at least one security hole (and probably many more than one).

What YA are you going to do about this?

Update:

Ooops! I jumped to a wrong conclusion. Thanks everybody putting me staight.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Not a security issue at all...When questions are in voting the answerers name are not shown so that voting is based on the actual quality of answers not who answered.

    Sadly it is a flawed premise.

    Questions are in voting for 2 days. If at the end of those 2 days there isn't an answer with a majority vote as Best Answer it will stay in voting as Tiebreaker until 1 answer gets the most votes. This can be weeks, months or even a year or more.

    There is a No Best Answer vote as well (only in voting) and if that wins the majority vote then the question is deleted and the asker gets the 5 points back it cost to ask.

  • 7 years ago

    That's not a security breach. That is simply how the site works. Answers during voting are anonymous. Once voting is over, the names will again be revealed.

  • Rev
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    They aren't going to do anything about it, because things are working exactly as intended.

    During voting, users are kept anonymous in order to prevent unfairly biased voting. Their names will appear again once the question is resolved.

  • 7 years ago

    When a question goes to a vote

    all names are removed except for the askers name'

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    As someone who has answered over 7000 questions, I am surprised that you have never before noticed that the answers are all anonymous when they are in voting!

  • 7 years ago

    oh damn!! u better contact the FBI, NSA and CIA immediately!!! It could be a terrorist organization!!

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