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Yahoo was secretly scanning your emails for the U.S. government

article published on 5 October, 2016

A bombshell Reuters report today claims that Yahoo was secretly scanning your emails to provide information for U.S. intelligence officials. The report claims that Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of emails at the behest of the NSA or the FBI, the first known time that a U.S. Internet company has agreed to a demand to search all incoming messages. In the past, other companies, such ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		5. October 2016 @ 12:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So basically if you have a Yahoo account, the US government and assorted hackers have full access and Yahoo doesn't bother telling you for at least a year. How is this company still in business???
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hearme0
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_ 		5. October 2016 @ 17:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Good thing my Yahoo acct is my SPAM account for signing up for various things.

Therefore, I don't care.
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Jackal1234
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_ 		6. October 2016 @ 12:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
 So basically if you have a Yahoo account, the US government and assorted hackers have full access and Yahoo doesn't bother telling you for at least a year. How is this company still in business???
Nasty ain't it.. I had a few yahoo accounts years ago but they seem to have been nuked from disuse. Never liked those guys very much except for yahoo pool, that was a good game!
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