Yahoo Inc. secretly created a program to search for all incoming messages email its customers to retrieve specific information on request of representatives of special services. Reuters said several sources.
the Company, according to three former employees and one person familiar with the situation, has scanned hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts on behalf of the NSA or the FBI. The request of the authorities were classified.
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What information intelligence agencies were looking for, it is not known — only that it was about the character set, that is, the phrase in the email or the attachment.
According to two former employees, the decision of the head of the company Marissa Mayer to obey the request of the security services angered a number of top managers, and in the end, for example, head of information security Alex Stamos Yahoo left! and is currently one of the leaders on the security of Facebook Inc.
“Yahoo! is a law-abiding company and respect the laws of the United States,” responded to the request of the Agency. Other comments followed. Stamos to give interviews was.
Some experts said that this is the first occasion when it became known that Internet companies, the United States agreed to grant the request of the security services and was carried out by scanning all incoming mail and have not studied a saved message or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.
the News said the whistleblower U.S. intelligence Edward Snowden. “Beware: any major email service that tomorrow will not deny it clearly and categorically, without careful phrases, so as guilty as Yahoo” — he wrote on Twitter.
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