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Tech: Yahoo let's US Gov Scan 500million Users Emails
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Yahoo let's US Gov Scan 500million Users Emails
MacRumors Reporting
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Yahoo secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information at the behest of U.S. intelligence authorities, according to people familiar with the matter.
Reuters spoke to three former Yahoo employees who revealed the existence of the custom code, apparently written in compliance with a classified U.S. government demand. The program scanned hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts for the NSA or FBI, said the former employees and a fourth person with knowledge of the events.
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Member Since: 8/26/2012
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Why do people care tho? like?? always crying about privacy but then crying more when a terrorist attack happens.
I'm sorry, if the FBI, CIA, whoever wants to read my email, see my text, listen to my phone, i don't care ??? I have nothing to hide. If they want to see my nudes, and hear my phone sex and read my dirty text, go for it.
Stop it people, its not the end of the world.
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Member Since: 9/3/2011
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Originally posted by Daniel767
Why do people care tho? like?? always crying about privacy but then crying more when a terrorist attack happens.
I'm sorry, if the FBI, CIA, whoever wants to read my email, see my text, listen to my phone, i don't care ??? I have nothing to hide. If they want to see my nudes, and hear my phone sex and read my dirty text, go for it.
Stop it people, its not the end of the world.
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Yikes.
Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean you should allow the government access to your entire digital life. It's an incredibly slippery slope.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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That is what you get for using an email server that was hot around 2002
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Member Since: 11/27/2010
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Originally posted by Daniel767
Why do people care tho? like?? always crying about privacy but then crying more when a terrorist attack happens.
I'm sorry, if the FBI, CIA, whoever wants to read my email, see my text, listen to my phone, i don't care ??? I have nothing to hide. If they want to see my nudes, and hear my phone sex and read my dirty text, go for it.
Stop it people, its not the end of the world.
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Ummmm you'd be shocked at the stuff people can use against you later on. Secondly, why does the government want to read your email so badly?
Too much data is worse than too little data. They are too busy sifting through yours and my emails and not sifting through a terrorists emails as a result.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Well,I'm not from US,so...
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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omg I used my yahoo to buy clothes online
a mess..
guess they better send me some CIA care packages since they already know my size
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Member Since: 9/4/2011
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Lord let me convince my dad to move to gmail 
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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Originally posted by Daniel767
Why do people care tho? like?? always crying about privacy but then crying more when a terrorist attack happens.
I'm sorry, if the FBI, CIA, whoever wants to read my email, see my text, listen to my phone, i don't care ??? I have nothing to hide. If they want to see my nudes, and hear my phone sex and read my dirty text, go for it.
Stop it people, its not the end of the world.
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Exactly!
Only pedos, criminals and liberals are against this ver sensible gov act smh
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
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Originally posted by Blue Momo!
Exactly!
Only pedos, criminals and liberals are against this ver sensible gov act smh
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Conservatives are big on privacy too.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by Blue Momo!
Exactly!
Only pedos, criminals and liberals are against this ver sensible gov act smh
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Not you singling out liberals when some opted for increase government surveillance in favor of counter-terrorism and some conservatives prefer privacy. This isn't a partisan issue.
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Is there really anything that isn't spying on us. I bet Gmail and Outlook are in on it too. Emails aren't reliably secured at all.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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i dont see the big deal.. if scanning the emails can prevent another 9/11 from happening then i say go for it.
Do people really think govt gives a f*** about their sext messages or nudes attached in emails?
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Member Since: 5/18/2012
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Originally posted by Letters From Adi
Well,I'm not from US,so...
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That doesn't mean a damn thing. And if you're country is in the 5 Eyes or the European Union all that information gets shared.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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King Yahoo! When will Hillary? 
Just kidding. This is ********. Government should respect a person's privacy no matter what. If, and only if, they suspect some sort of bad behavior (planned terrorism, etc), Yahoo! and any other messenger should grant them access to the suspect's email ONLY. No one else. Not even people he talked to.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by Daniel767
Why do people care tho? like?? always crying about privacy but then crying more when a terrorist attack happens.
I'm sorry, if the FBI, CIA, whoever wants to read my email, see my text, listen to my phone, i don't care ??? I have nothing to hide. If they want to see my nudes, and hear my phone sex and read my dirty text, go for it.
Stop it people, its not the end of the world.
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Because there is definitive and conclusive information showing that the government gathering this stuff doesn't actually help them prevent terrorism; they overwhelm themselves with info and then cherry pick to suit whatever agenda they have. There actually was, for example, enough communication tracked from the terrorists who planned 9/11, yet it was overlooked, not to mention that this info was obtained prior to our government granting itself immeasurable surveillance powers. Instead it's used to scapegoat whistleblowers and consolidate power - monitoring and then controlling the flow of communication and information is precursory to establishing fascism, actually.
Further, we get investigative reports about how the state misuses this power to spy on, for example, BLM activists - or, people fighting for equality. It's just like how the FBI sabotaged the black panthers and killed MLK. History repeats itself.
Instead of being a reactionary child, put on your critical thinking hat and do some Googling.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I'm done with Yahoo. They let some government **** scan my emails but they won't let me get an old account I have a password to back  Hope their HQ burns down
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Member Since: 8/26/2012
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Originally posted by DTF
Because there is definitive and conclusive information showing that the government gathering this stuff doesn't actually help them prevent terrorism; they overwhelm themselves with info and then cherry pick to suit whatever agenda they have. There actually was, for example, enough communication tracked from the terrorists who planned 9/11, yet it was overlooked, not to mention that this info was obtained prior to our government granting itself immeasurable surveillance powers. Instead it's used to scapegoat whistleblowers and consolidate power - monitoring and then controlling the flow of communication and information is precursory to establishing fascism, actually.
Further, we get investigative reports about how the state misuses this power to spy on, for example, BLM activists - or, people fighting for equality. It's just like how the FBI sabotaged the black panthers and killed MLK. History repeats itself.
Instead of being a reactionary child, put on your critical thinking hat and do some Googling.
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Ah, I apologize then, Ill based my facts on google next time! thanks.
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Originally posted by Speezy
I'm done with Yahoo. They let some government **** scan my emails but they won't let me get an old account I have a password to back Hope their HQ burns down |
LMAO Yahoo is always so messy !!!
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Member Since: 8/30/2011
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I think why people are mainly concerned is because as someone said above 'SLIPPERY SLOPE'
Lets not forget Watergate or J, Edgar Hoover. With the wrong government spying can be used to undermine the opposition and that could harm democracy.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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mess why are the cia scanning yahoo mails and **** like im pretty sure terrorists use some kind of lowkey/complicated communication & ****. come on now.
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