Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence

[MachineGhost]

Surprised no one posted this blockbuster. Everyone feeling comfortable with Big Brother already??? Not surprised the overpaid blonde bimbo is at fault.

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.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo ... SKCN1241YT

[Reub]

I have nothing to hide. If it helped to apprehend even one mass murdering jihadist then all I can say is "Thank you!"

[buddtholomew]

I have nothing to hide. If it helped to apprehend even one mass murdering jihadist then all I can say is "Thank you!"

Yeah, that today, but what tomorrow?

[Reub]

dear rube
based on your yahoo emails you have been tagged as a right wing, republican, and a member of the dangerous white race known to oppress others, and as such you have been placed on Hillary Clinton's FBI terrorist watch list.
your ongoing activity will be monitored until such time as we can find placement for you in a re=education camp where you can be taught a correct, left leaning, liberal world view that will allow you to coexist peacefully in the new world order..

Please don't forget to write!

encrypted messages by carrier pigeon only, now that the right to privacy is frowned upon by both sides of the isle, its the only thing we will have left...