With all of the chatter about the merits and viability of the tax credit, I'm surprised at the lack of comment on the preamble. Regardless whether the proposed legislation makes it, as a resident of NYS, I'm really encouraged to hear that the Assembly "Gets It" when it comes to *using* OSS. That's not "proposed" -- they've already made OSS a significant part of how they get things done. This is a *huge* win in mindset, and will have positive effects (even indirect ones) beyond any small tax credit.

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It must be bunnies.

I haven't looked carefully at the rest of the platforms that Yahoo provides, but I believe that at least Yahoo Messenger (when connecting with Pidgin anyway) also sends the same auth credentials in plain text. Not that the overall problem is insignificant (*any* time auth credentials are sent, in any context, they should be encrypted), but worrying only about IMAP is naive in this case. (What about POP? What about all the Y! web platforms?)