Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources
Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources
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.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT
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Maybe we should all start posting fake stuff to give the Feds something to do.
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As Fox Mulder said
"Trust No One" It certainly has become that?
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage
Not unlikely nor unexpected. Also not too hard.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Title should clarify
that this is a Reuters exclusive, i.e., original reporting by the news service, out front of other media. Otherwise it looks like the diarist is claiming credit.
Euterpe2
WTF is wrong with our NSA?
They can't do this shit themselves? Something smells funny like this is a trial balloon to see what will fly by the American people. On another note, where are all those 'Democrats' that were complaining about privacy with GW Bush?
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
PS
Always include the phrase 'Yahoo sucks terrorists toe-jam' in every email.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
All The Major Email Services Are Likely Doing The Same
Seriously, why would the NSA only ask Yahoo to do it?
So we are into full blown US Stasi territory now. Obomba can no longer claim "we're only collecting meta-data". This is a Banana Republic Dictator's Wet Dream Come True.
The Ironic part is that this whole NSA spy system is paid for with tax payer money. WE ARE PAYING THE GOVT TO SPY ON US.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Why Does Yahoo Still Employ Marissa Meyer?
Sure, she's easy on the eyes - UNTIL you discover what an incompetent she is. She is going to destroy Yahoo! and walk away with millions.
edited for title typo
Vowing To Oppose Everything Trump Attempts.