[Cryptography] Reuters: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources

[Henry Baker]

At 01:16 PM 10/4/2016, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Reuters: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
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>http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT
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>Just so everyone understands:
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>This article tells us Yahoo didn't merely cooperate with intelligence officials asking for selected customer emails, but rather voluntarily built a platform to systematically scan *all* customer email for things intelligence officials might want to read and turning it over to them.
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>The CISO apparently resigned when he discovered this had been implemented without the knowledge of the security team.
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>Shame on Yahoo for agreeing to do such a thing.

The FBI/DHS/DOJ told Marissa they would abort her unborn baby, by putting a bloody doll in her bed.

BTW, all of the other ISP's, with the possible exceptions of Google & Apple, most likely did the same things -- we just haven't heard confirmation *yet*.

The ISP's connected with telcos and cablecos are connected to the govt at the highest levels -- at the axis of the regulatory revolving door -- the FCC holds their genitals by the short & curlies; this is true around the globe, where telcos are often govt-owned/govt-controlled/etc.  Doing telco business outside the U.S. *normally* involves substantial bribes to govt officials; Carly Fiorina may have been the first to stop the practise at Lucent, and probably forfeited significant sales as a result.