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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So corrupt. Way past time to light the torches.
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.
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”.
Did they find any intelligence?
Yahoo email: guaranteed to be scanned and hacked.
Spend a few bucks and get an email at reagan.com.
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.
>>That’s why Yahoo was suborned to scan email accounts.<<
Yep, without probable cause warrants.
Clever. But the drafts folder can be scanned as easily as the inbox folder.
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.
Granted. But the email can be scanned.
Much easier to encode your message inside a picture. Much harder to trace also.
I can hear the excuses now... Honest, honey! I was searching for terrorists! /s
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.
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.
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Just sayin’ “Hi” to my friends in the GCHQ!
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