Scandal email spy, Yahoo defends itself: “the News is misleading, no control of the masses” – The Republic

NEW YORK – Yahoo the day after he defends himself. To the report of Reuters, in which he accuses the Sunnyvale company have allowed the 007 americans to access last year to hundreds of millions of email account private, the first official declarations of the group led by Marissa Mayer: “this news is misleading. We have always used a stringent criterion in order for the authorities to access the personal data of our customers”. In addition, says Yahoo, “a control of the inbound emails as described in the report does not exist in our systems”. You do not say that you have not opened the doors to the security agencies like the Nsa and Fbi, but the stresses of having opened them just a little. The journalistic investigation seems to say the opposite. And the contrasts in 2015, led to the resignation of the former chief security officer of Yahoo, Alex Stamos, seem to confirm the scenario described.

the Fact is that these revelations have finished a real earthquake in the company, accused in the past few weeks have been a huge compromise of his account (at least half a billion) by hackers, probably in order not to compromise the delicate phase in the sale of the company to Verizon. It is a case of “unprecedented and unconstitutional”, accused in the main of the american association for the defence of civil rights, the American Civil Liberties Union that points the finger against the web giant for not having opposed the request of the intelligence agencies of the federal government. “Users rely on technology companies to protect their rights and defend their data demands of espionage”. And this, it seems, is not what happened. On the contrary.

put their hands Up the other giant Use of the web, from Google to Microsoft through Apple, and – despite the fact that in 2013 many of them were indicated by the Washington Post as participating in the surveillance program Prism – now take the distances from Yahoo. “We never got a request like that, but if it was a success, our answer would have been only one: in no way,” assures Google that handles the mail service Gmail. Also Microsoft says you never checked in the mass email account to provide information to the 007: the “No-traffic-secret email as it was reported on Yahoo.” Reassurance also came from Apple, always in the front line against the pressures of the investigators who often ask d to violate the privacy of the users in the context of terrorist investigations: “we have never received a request of this type. If that had happened, we would have opposed before the Court”. As in the case of the request to undermine the security of the iPhone of one of the authors of the massacre of San Bernardino. To unlock it, at least officially, was then thought a hacker on behalf of the Fbi.

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Marissa Mayer