[Brian K]

Yahoo was just revealed to be the very first US internet company to build a program, at the request of US Intelligence Services, to search every single incoming message of every single user in real time.

Let me say that again. Every. Single. Incoming. Message. Every user.

This is an absolutely unprecedented privacy violation. Surveillance experts and former government officials are saying they have never seen such a broad demand for real-time digital surveillance, nevermind one that calls for the creation of a new computer program. This program, essentially a wire-tap on the web, is beyond the scope of any of the already overreaching surveillance laws currently on the books.

"The order issued to Yahoo appears to be unprecedented and unconstitutional. The government appears to have compelled Yahoo to conduct precisely the type of general, suspicionless search that the Fourth Amendment was intended to prohibit," said ACLU Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2016-10-06-yahoo-let-the-nsa-read-your-email-before-you-even/

I'm going to have to craft a new sig line to give them something to talk about.

 

[htperry]

I rely on the NSA to let me know if I get anything important, since I don't check my Yahoo accounts very often.

 

[Noway2]

I don't use my yahoo account much either. With this revelation, yahoo is certainly an appropriate name for the company.

This reminds me of the joke about the guy that put up an ISIS flag on his house and now it's watched by the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the sheriff, etc and he has never felt safer or had a more effective security system.

Really, though, this is not only a clear constitutional violation at its core, it demonstrates a fundamental problem with the federal govt, in that it feels the need to commit such an act. Clearly it knows that the populace is turning against it and it is very afraid of and expects covert acts against it. The thing is that by doing this it has dramatically undermined its own legitimacy and should be dismantled, starting with the NSA and those responsible for these acts, charged, convicted, and executed for treason. We're already seeing the disaffected and disenfranchised in the inner cities, but it will become a bigger problem as the rest of the population turns against them too.


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[ikarus1]

1. Yahoo stopped being relevant for anything quite a while ago
2. http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-unwinds-15-year-web-alliance-with-yahoo-1462394907
3. Another reason that if anyone is using AT&T internet to dump them, since they use yahoo mail servers. And don't email anyone with an yahoo address either.

 

[ForumSurfer]

Yahoo is the first to ADMIT it. If you're here, you registered with an email address and you're monitored. If you post, you're definitely monitored. If you have an email address at all for anything...you can bet they can access it before you. The days of being invisible online are long gone. You can hide partially, but you're only moderately lowering their vectors of breaching your security. Remaining 100% undetectable and untraceable is no longer within the realm of reason. This excludes the black and white hat elite....and those guys are so deep into security that it becomes their entire life and that is all it revolves around, security for the sake of security.

 

[RedneckFur]

I haven't used my Yahoo account in around 5 years. I suspect its probably already been closed down due to inactivity. That said, I'm not surprised by this at all. I doubt there is any sort of email out there that gives you 100% privacy. They might keep the average nosy joe from reading your emails, but they certainly won't try to keep the government out.

 

[Mikew]

AughOO I use mine ALL THE TIME I get lots of spam from NRA and several ammo and gun parts web sights and WOOT and All Electronics and This Forum damn am I in trouble.

I've been thinking about consolidating my email addresses anyway I now use three, any good suggestions for an all around good service?

Also I remember someone talking about encrypting every email you sent and sending lots with pictures of puppies and kittens just to piss off the NSA by jamming up their computers.

 

[Armorpl8chikn]

Well that sucks....
My spam alone makes me a massive blip on their radar...
Mil spec monkey
Tactical$#@+.com
Midway
Missouri
Natchez
PSA
JSE
Delta tactical
Harbor Freight
Amazon....check out the latest from Matt Bracken!
Buy apocalyptic novels now!

Yeah.....I'm screwed

 

[Geezer]

I find this difficult to believe. If they had checked mine I would have heard from someone in Washington by now.

 

[Threshold]

As though we needed another item on the "reasons Yahoo should die in a fire" list...

 

[Dcgallim]

I was told a long time ago comparing email to a letter you'd send through the mail was wrong. It's more like a post card, anyone can just flip it over and read what is on it.

 

[Noway2]

I was told a long time ago comparing email to a letter you'd send through the mail was wrong. It's more like a post card, anyone can just flip it over and read what is on it.

Indeed. It's not perfect but there are options like GPG which will encrypt your email. It can probably still be cracked and decrypted, but it would make things a lot harder. Of course the NSA has also been caught (years ago) trying to stack the deck in the random number generation department by influencing the algorithms that got implemented to their benefit.

One thing I do is run my own email server, just not in my bathroom. I am running Postfix with Dovecot, Amavis and Spam Assassin, along with a few other tools like RBL subscriptions. It is nice having control over it, and I get VERY little SPAM, not that they don't try. Unless the computer is compromised, the only way they're scanning my email is on the other end. Unfortunately, most still use an open provider....

 

[DLam]

Indeed. It's not perfect but there are options like GPG which will encrypt your email. It can probably still be cracked and decrypted, but it would make things a lot harder. Of course the NSA has also been caught (years ago) trying to stack the deck in the random number generation department by influencing the algorithms that got implemented to their benefit.

One thing I do is run my own email server, just not in my bathroom. I am running Postfix with Dovecot, Amavis and Spam Assassin, along with a few other tools like RBL subscriptions. It is nice having control over it, and I get VERY little SPAM, not that they don't try. Unless the computer is compromised, the only way they're scanning my email is on the other end. Unfortunately, most still use an open provider....

Hillary???? is dat you???

 

[Noway2]

Hillary???? is dat you???

Yes, err I mean no. Damn where is that bit bleach aoplication......

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[Mr. Warren Peace]

Thanks because I will increase the number of dick pics I send through my yahoo account.

 

[htperry]

I will increase the number of dick pics I get through my yahoo account.

FIFY

Check yo inbox, I sent ya sumtin'.

 

[Threshold]

Thanks because I will increase the number of dick pics I send through my yahoo account.

The more herpetic the better...

 

[Noway2]

FIFY

Check yo inbox, I sent ya sumtin'.

Send him a case of crabs while your at it.

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[Mikew]

I'm going to have to craft a new sig line to give them something to talk about.

Yea I just Google Translated some of that sig line now I'll be in trouble!!!

 

[unknownpro]

It's hard for me to believe this. My emails still say unread.