Posted on 10/04/2016 10:22:05 AM PDT by Beave Meister
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - 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 directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.
Some surveillance experts said this represents the first case to surface of a U.S. Internet company agreeing to a spy agency's demand 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Terrorists don’t send emails. Instead they compose a message and save it in their drafts folder. The other terrorists access the same account and receive their instructions.
You don’t think this administration was trying to find out who are the Conservatives? Or who owns a gun(s) do you?
The current movie about “Snowden” pretty much covers this. Good movie.
So the FBI is scanning the e-mails of innocent Americans looking for terrorist ties while refusing to prosecute the Secretary of State for using a private e-mail server to hide her own terrorist ties?
That's why Yahoo was suborned to scan email accounts.
They can look into the draft folders, instead of waiting for email to be sent via SMTP.
I hope the NSA enjoys reading all my SPAM from Sears and Kmart begging me to come and shop there again.
“Terrorists don’t send emails. Instead they compose a message and save it in their drafts folder. The other terrorists access the same account and receive their instructions.”
That’s so 1990’s.
It is interesting how this news breaks AFTER Yahoo! has been acquired by Verizon.
As if Verizon management is serving notice that they don’t want to play ball.
The FBI is also, busy diligently destroying all of Hillary’s incriminating emails.
How many Yahoo email customers receive encrypted emails? Since this is an automated process, I suppose Yahoo wouldn’t even notice if anyone did, they’d just scan the encrypted text and not find anything.
The rest of the article is interesting.
The Yahoo security team wasn’t involved in or even consulted about the scanning effort. But, it was discovered by the security team within weeks.
The security team thought it was the work of rogue actors, but after finding out the CEO had authorized it, the chief information security officer resigned in protest. He now holds a similar position at Facebook.
...and Yahoo account holders lack intelligence anyway ;)
Do you hear Lindseed, a JAG officer, screaming this from the roof tops? No, instead you hear how he and the US Senate will work with Clinton.
DISGUSTED!
Here’s a question for you:
What if Google is a shadow corporation of the US Government, set up to monitor a large part of its population through their web traffic, web searches, and personal email?
Wrap your brain around that one.
It is possible for a Yahoo email account to send/receive encrypted emails, but it would require a separate program that uses the IMAP or POP services at Yahoo.
Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, and other commonly available email clients support a standard known as S/MIME. But, if you are going to go through all that effort, you could use ANY email provider, including setting up your own on a virtual private server.
I agree, that’s why I don’t use Google for anything.
Thank you, Yahoo!
Now, it is twice that i’ve had my information winnowed.
Once, by the ChiComs, when they got ALL my information, I mean ALL of it, when they broke into the Dept. of Defense database; and now, by the Obama Administration.
I have believed exactly that for a long time.
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