Re Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
> Date: October 4, 2016 at 5:11:16 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence
>
> (For IP, if you wish)
>
> Three questions.
>
> 1. What does this tell us about Yahoo's statements that it uses end-to-end
> encryption?
>
> 2. This story says that Yahoo *wrote* software to accomplish this task.
> Why didn't they just repurpose the content-scanning software they already
> have in place -- the software that scans every message for malware, spam,
> phishing, etc.?
>
> 3. The Reuters story includes this:
>
>    "When Stamos found out that Mayer had authorized the program,
>    he resigned as chief information security officer and told his
>    subordinates that he had been left out of a decision that hurt
>    users' security, the sources said. Due to a programming flaw,
>    he told them hackers could have accessed the stored emails."
>
> Is this related to last week's disclosure that at least 500 million
> Yahoo user accounts have been compromised?
>
> ---rsk



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