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Between this and the recent revelation that Millions of yahoo email accounts were compromised by hackers in 2014...um, I'm glad I have an Apple email address.
 
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Call me crazy but there's no doubt in my mind that others have done it as well. Especially G!

you're not crazy at all. Google holds a scary amount of detail about us all in part because its services are so ubiquitous. If you're not using Google search, you're using Gmail, Chrome browser, Android phone, Google Maps, Google app on your iPhone, Google Photos. Their entire business model is predicated on knowing as much as possible about you.

Apple also has a scary amount of information about us. But, Apple seems to be the only company that at least outwardly claims to be the good guy. Whether their actions match their words is a different story. There are things Tim Cook says and then there are things Apple does. The two may not always be congruent and, frankly, Tim Cook may not even know when they aren't congruent.
 
How is this news, much less a surprise to anyone? Since the Patriot Act, we should not be expecting anything to be a secret unless encryption is on both ends and the emails end there.

In this decade, everything is assumed to be automatically collected by the government, though, whether they have the untiring manpower to go thru them all is doubtful, scanning keywords or not. Add text messages to this data, the fatigue factor compounds, becoming a massive hoard of junk. At best, they can be used after the fact to connect the dots.

Doesn't Verizon already own Yahoo!?
 
What a bunch of lame push overs. They must have felled embarrassed when they saw Apple pushing back on the iPhone hack request, while they just rolled-over. I guess after today even that dozen email accounts they had left will be closed.
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Come on Dude, this is a really bad comment. Still wondering why your post hasn't been removed yet.
How can you be upset that Yahoo violated your freedom and in the same post wonder why MR hasn't acted to prevent freedom of speech? This guy isn't entitled to an opinion because he isn't in sync with the politically correct American dream? That right there is a bigger problem.
 
What a bunch of lame push overs. They must have felled embarrassed when they saw Apple pushing back on the iPhone hack request, while they just rolled-over. I guess after today even that dozen email accounts they had left will be closed.

Part of the problem might be that the vast majority of users who are on Yahoo may not even know it unless they use the web interface. For instance, Frontier Communications uses Yahoo for email. If you used an email client, you wouldn't necessarily know this (POP3 server names are still Frontier), but if you used the web client, its obvious (it says Yahoo everywhere).

Might be time to dust off that unused iCloud account...
 
I've already started transitioning away to a secure paid service. Yahoo! keeps accumulating the scandals and perhaps only a matter of time before it falls.
 
Disgusting, that's all I have to say. No major player beyond Apple have taken a strategic policy stance of protecting private customer information.

Most of them, including MS, have strategies that monetise private customer information. I'm sure they get "goodwill" points for smoothly sharing private customer information with the organised crime racket that run Washington as well.

Internet has-been Yahoo! has stressed it broke no US laws when it apparently insecurely backdoored its email systems for the NSA or FBI.

In 2015, the California-based biz hastily set up mechanisms that allowed American intelligence workers to scan all incoming Yahoo! Mail for particular strings of keywords, it is reported. It appears Yahoo! made no attempt to challenge or fend off Uncle Sam's demands for people's private data.

Alarmingly, the slurping software was so insecure, opportunistic hackers could have plundered it for messages, we're told. This major shortcoming drove Yahoo!'s chief security officer to quit in protest, apparently.

If it worked they way described in the Reg there is possible legal grounds for users to go to court. I'm no judicial expert, but if Yahoo compromised their own security to fulfil the demands of the criminal racket in Washington, one of them is responsible for knowingly creating an insecure infrastructure for the services that Yahoo offered. That, besides of course stealing private information against the law.
 
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I opened an Yahoo account for Flickr. Never used the email. Few weeks later I had hundreds of spam emails. Imagine if I had to rely on that email for work?

In this day and age, we should rely on e2e encryption.
Protonmail, Signal for messages and calls and use a VPN located in a country that still respect privacy.

Kim dot com is going to release a Dropbox competitor with zero-knowledge encryption. Soon we're able to put our personal files in the cloud without being spied and with less risk of hacks.
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Be careful. With all evidence that women are not as good as men as CEOs, SJWs will bully you.

Facts and statistics are sexist!

Well that's pretty ignorant and sexist. What percentage of CEOs are women?
 
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ProtonMail?
Yup - might be time to ditch gmail. Though that will have limited impact as most of my contacts are on gmail still. I only have one friend with a yahoo address however I have not been in touch with for several years so not sure if she still uses it.
 
Serious question, is there a secure email available? I don't like my Gmail, not because of Google, because of the interface. I just don't like it. I have one hotmail and don't use since I have similar accounts on Yahoo. After the breach i was looking to move everything. Even more so now.
 
Serious question, is there a secure email available? I don't like my Gmail, not because of Google, because of the interface. I just don't like it. I have one hotmail and don't use since I have similar accounts on Yahoo. After the breach i was looking to move everything. Even more so now.

No provider is secure. If you're worried about security you can host your own mail server, but then again, nothing is ever 100% secure.
 
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Well that's pretty ignorant and sexist. What percentage of CEOs are women?

LOL, I guess you're being sarcastic.

Just look at Forbes list. Women accounts for less than 5%. And from those 5%, 95% of them inherited the money. And if you look up that tiny "self-made" percentage, they didn't had anything to do with the company when it was founded.
 
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BFD
Anyone who uses email for nefarious purposes is a moron.

Think of email as living in a glass house. Cuz that's what it is. Every keystroke we make on our computer is essentially logged. To believe otherwise is foolish.
 
I hope they enjoyed my talk about nothing and extremely schlocky fiction about ultraviolent 1970s bikers, evil cults, a superpowered priest and death metal good guys who destroy said cults.

I hope no one buys Yahoo and they collapse under their own foulness.
 
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