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Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence - sources
Yahoo.com ^ | 10/4/2016 | Joseph Menn

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.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; clinton; corruption; democrats; emails; hillary; hrc; liberals; lyingliberalliars; nsa; obama; privacy; spying; yahoo; yahoomail; yahoomailhacked
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To: Beave Meister

So corrupt. Way past time to light the torches.


21 posted on 10/04/2016 10:47:36 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Deplorable Me)
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To: justlurking

I actually saw this exchange posted in a Yahoo! support forum.

Q. What is wrong with Yahoo! Mail?

A. Marissa Mayer is running the company.


22 posted on 10/04/2016 10:50:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Beave Meister

You can bet that all the other email providers are doing the same. Google GMail, was already reading, categorizing, storing users emails.

Under hildabeast, wonder what phrases and key words they will be searching for and what databases I will be placed in for “future actions”.


23 posted on 10/04/2016 10:51:53 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Beave Meister

Did they find any intelligence?


24 posted on 10/04/2016 11:05:17 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Beave Meister

Yahoo email: guaranteed to be scanned and hacked.

Spend a few bucks and get an email at reagan.com.


25 posted on 10/04/2016 11:11:43 AM PDT by upchuck ("It's either Donald Trump or 1,000 years of darkness on this planet." ~ Roger Stone)
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To: ClearCase_guy

American Police State. Ah, ain’t it grand.

We’ve allowed our liberty/freedoms to slip right through our hands.

Won’t get any better folks.


26 posted on 10/04/2016 11:11:47 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: justlurking

>>That’s why Yahoo was suborned to scan email accounts.<<

Yep, without probable cause warrants.


27 posted on 10/04/2016 11:13:23 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Blood of Tyrants
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.

Clever. But the drafts folder can be scanned as easily as the inbox folder.

28 posted on 10/04/2016 11:13:27 AM PDT by upchuck ("It's either Donald Trump or 1,000 years of darkness on this planet." ~ Roger Stone)
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To: upchuck

But there is nothing in the “to” field. And the intended recipients can access the account from a public place like a library or coffee shop and avoid giving up their exact location.


29 posted on 10/04/2016 11:24:13 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Granted. But the email can be scanned.


30 posted on 10/04/2016 11:35:10 AM PDT by upchuck ("It's either Donald Trump or 1,000 years of darkness on this planet." ~ Roger Stone)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Much easier to encode your message inside a picture. Much harder to trace also.


31 posted on 10/04/2016 11:37:07 AM PDT by Terabitten (Time for the GOPe to reap the whirlwind.)
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To: Terabitten
Much easier to encode your message inside a picture. Much harder to trace also.

Islamic terrorists are known to do this. They have a particular fondness for embedding them in photos on porn sites.


32 posted on 10/04/2016 11:53:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
They have a particular fondness for embedding them in photos on porn sites.

I can hear the excuses now... Honest, honey! I was searching for terrorists! /s

33 posted on 10/04/2016 12:50:04 PM PDT by ken in texas
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To: longfellowsmuse
#6 Nailed it!
ping
34 posted on 10/04/2016 1:55:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: justlurking

If you received an email encrypted to your public PGP key on Yahoo, couldn’t you just cut and paste it, and then decrypt it with your private key? I believe that is probably what is done on the notorious Usenet group alt.anonymous.messages, although nobody really knows for sure.


35 posted on 10/04/2016 5:16:59 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I get tons of emails from many ladies clothes stores plus many nursery/flowers, , fruit trees, etc, even getting some from match.com. I delete hundreds a day. God bless.


36 posted on 04/08/2017 9:31:19 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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To: relictele
I have had a yahoo account since 1998. Have not had any trouble. It seems to be mostly junk nowadays. None of my friends/relatives send emails. I keep up with them on FB. I love seeing their pictures, news, etc. I am still friends with people I started 1st grade with in 1950 and MSU friends. I do have 2/3 liberal friends but the others are Christian Conservatives.
37 posted on 04/08/2017 10:10:07 AM PDT by MamaB (Heb : 13:2)
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To: Beave Meister

Lithium 6
Lithium 7
Polonium
hexafluoride
tritium
Trump

Just sayin’ “Hi” to my friends in the GCHQ!


38 posted on 04/08/2017 10:18:14 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill
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