I think N$A and FBI are more interested of the relations between people. Who is in your contact list? Otherwise e-mail is easy pray to catch from the tapped lines.
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Yahoo Secretly Scanned Millions of Customer Emails for U.S. Authorities [Updated]
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Uhh, actually, thanks to crap like this, the NSA knows EXACTLY what's going on behind YOUR closed doors at night ...
The organised crime racket i Washington have the resources to scan e-mail content in transit.
Possibly it could be a question of problems with internal sharing of unconstitutionally obtained data, or it's cheaper to obtain the information through Yahoo's databases or Yahoo was hit up with this for other purposes.
If the mail content is not encrypted it matters less what provider is used, any unencrypted mail exchanged on Internet is in transit already scanned, indexed, analysed and archived by more than one stakeholder. There are probably dozens of state actors doing this in a general fashion and uncountable lesser state actors and different forms or organised crime and commercial actors that do it in a more targeted way.
Appart from that, my stance is stay as far as possible away from companies whose business model is to cannibalise on your private information i.e. Microsoft, Google, Facebook and basically any conventional "social media".
Possibly it could be a question of problems with internal sharing of unconstitutionally obtained data, or it's cheaper to obtain the information through Yahoo's databases or Yahoo was hit up with this for other purposes.
If the mail content is not encrypted it matters less what provider is used, any unencrypted mail exchanged on Internet is in transit already scanned, indexed, analysed and archived by more than one stakeholder. There are probably dozens of state actors doing this in a general fashion and uncountable lesser state actors and different forms or organised crime and commercial actors that do it in a more targeted way.
Appart from that, my stance is stay as far as possible away from companies whose business model is to cannibalise on your private information i.e. Microsoft, Google, Facebook and basically any conventional "social media".
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But Hillary is just another lizard. I think that's why Donald is still in the game. No matter how much he lies, he's not one of the lizards.
And those who don't know what "the lizard" means, can educate themselves with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The book trilogy in five parts.
Obviously, most commenting here haven't worked in tech or telecom, so don't realize that this has been routine since the patriot act. It's called "lawful access" people.
The morons formerly at Yahoo blabbing this to the press...well...most people involved in this have to get top secret government clearance to work on the projects. Blabbing about it means you've committed a federal crime (inches away from treason).
This has been the norm ever since 9/11 - the PATRIOT act gave the government virtually limitless power in pursuing terrorists.
Any service companies saying that they've never done it? Well, that's only because that's all they're allowed to say.
I just terminated my yahoo account and my mom's. She only used it for chat and since I moved her over to trillian, no need for it. As for me, it's gone because I moved over to trillian and super rarely used my yahoo email.
It makes perfect sense although I’m not sure whether I’d trust Apple least. They make a soon and dance but then you would wouldn't you.
Double edged sword but what sticks out to me here is that classified operations have been revealed. So you have to ask, ho many other organisations are keeping quite about classified things, including Apple.
As an employee you are expected to have intergity and keep data safe but as a citizen you’re also expected to have integrity and keep certain government things safe, even those things that went nowhere.
I'm beyond disappointed in this. I've had a Yahoo email account since sometime in the 90s and the email address is a part of who I am online. Yahoo has been increasingly frustrating to me over the last several years, but this is the last straw. It's time for me to leave them for good.
It's important to remember that Microsoft didn't do any program like Yahoo!'s because they willingly gave the NSA unlimited pre-encryption access to all Hotmail.com, Outlook.com and Skype communications without an order. And they presumably still provide this access having never said they stopped it.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
That makes Yahoo and all of Microsoft's e-mail and communications services the U.S. government was / is directly accessing.
Google, the biggest communication's honeypot of all (obviously the Bush/Obama Administrations weren't just going to forget about them), what secret orders (with gag orders attached) has the U.S. government had you doing during this time?
In Google's defense the secret splicing of Google's server farm network by the NSA / U.S. government (Snowden) may have made it so the Bush/Obama Administration didn't need a secret order for Google (they just stole it directly without Google knowing).
If your life is at risk, then no. But for privacy for regular users Proton Mail (put together by scientists in Switzerland after all the stuff came out from Snowden) is pretty good (the iOS app is very nice). The only downside is to keep the security the people you communicate with need to use it too. I use it with my family members, just because I like the idea of privacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
That makes Yahoo and all of Microsoft's e-mail and communications services the U.S. government was / is directly accessing.
Google, the biggest communication's honeypot of all (obviously the Bush/Obama Administrations weren't just going to forget about them), what secret orders (with gag orders attached) has the U.S. government had you doing during this time?
In Google's defense the secret splicing of Google's server farm network by the NSA / U.S. government (Snowden) may have made it so the Bush/Obama Administration didn't need a secret order for Google (they just stole it directly without Google knowing).
If your life is at risk, then no. But for privacy for regular users Proton Mail (put together by scientists in Switzerland after all the stuff came out from Snowden) is pretty good (the iOS app is very nice). The only downside is to keep the security the people you communicate with need to use it too. I use it with my family members, just because I like the idea of privacy.
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Thanks! I will look a little more into them. Looks good so far. Do you know if it works with the stock mail app?
Doesn't have to be nefarious to want privacy. Financial, medical, personal, intellectual property...
In this case must be all three are involved in this I'm sure you can add Sex too.
"Freedom of speech" is, exclusively, binding on the government, not private entities. People and companies have always implemented censorship in one form or another, and have every right to do so.
The original Reuters article, which ironically I read on Yahoo News, has more details about this.
The Yahoo security team wasn't informed about this directive. A small group of people from another part of the company implemented the directive, and it was detected within weeks by the security team. The security team thought it was the work of outsiders, and that Yahoo had been compromised.
But, when the report went to the CEO, that is when Stamos found out about the directive. He resigned in protest, and ended up at Facebook.
Unfortunately, most voters don't see it that way. They are willing to believe in fairytales because it makes them feel good. Freedom is hard, and it takes sacrifice, which sadly enough most people are not willing to put forward.
This is why it's important to be able to say "we are physically and technologically unable to comply with your demand to read our user's messages - we don't have access to their encryption keys."
Google is in bed with Obama and Hilary, so they won't have any issues unless the Donald is elected, then you can expect all heck to break out by them refusing to work with the government.
The world is safe! Thank god!
Seriously though, the more you engage with the things you don't agree with....the more power you give them.