Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - Polidicks

[quote]Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events. Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to an intelligence agency's request by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time. It is not known what information intelligence officials were looking for, only that they wanted Yahoo to search for a set of characters. That could mean a phrase in an email or an attachment, said the sources, who did not want to be identified. Reuters was unable to determine what data Yahoo may have handed over, if any, and if intelligence officials had approached other email providers besides Yahoo with this kind of request. According to two of the former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc . "Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States," the company said in a brief statement in response to Reuters questions about the demand. Yahoo declined any further comment.[/quote] [url]https://www.yahoo.com/tech/yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-us-intelligence-sources-170638369--finance.html[/url] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT[/url]

... People still use Yahoo email?

Best part is the "exclusive" is on yahoo tech.

Interesting to see that Yahoo published this on their news site.

[quote]According to two of the former employees, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's decision to obey the directive roiled some senior executives and led to the June 2015 departure of Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, who now holds the top security job at Facebook Inc.[/quote] curious how people get more upset at facebook for collecting marketing data than they do their government scanning private communications

[QUOTE=Marcolade;51154192]... People still use Yahoo email?[/QUOTE] I still have one, but these days I just have yahoo forward it all to my gmail.

[QUOTE=Marcolade;51154192]... People still use Yahoo email?[/QUOTE] I do for fantasy football and other fantasy football related things.

[QUOTE=Marcolade;51154192]... People still use Yahoo email?[/QUOTE] In my experience with tech service, it's mostly older people

[QUOTE=C0linSSX;51154765]In my experience with tech service, it's mostly older people[/QUOTE] NSA putting a stop to all those senile ISIS members plotting against america

[QUOTE=Marcolade;51154192]... People still use Yahoo email?[/QUOTE] Despite never remembering the password, the piss poor excuse for security they have lets me access it whenever, so might as well use it when ever i need to do something that'll like end with spam mail.

[QUOTE=AaronM202;51154998]Despite never remembering the password, the piss poor excuse for security they have lets me access it whenever, so might as well use it when ever i need to do something that'll like end with spam mail.[/QUOTE] i can't count the number of yahoo emails i made purely for shit like that.

[QUOTE=Pops;51157834]i can't count the number of yahoo emails i made purely for shit like that.[/QUOTE] You should really only need one for that though? And anything that just need an unverified email I use [email]suck@my.dick[/email]

You guys are making me feel bad for using Yahoo Mail.