Yahoo under fire for the millions of emails spy for and on behalf of the 007 Usa – The Republic

NEW YORK – After the case of the half-billion accounts hacked by hackers, that was not enough, the corporate crisis and the difficult period of the sale to Verizon, Yahoo faces a new earthquake: According to Reuters, has secretly allowed the 007 the Usa, from the Fbi to the Nsa, to search among the hundreds of millions of emails of its users. Reveal is a service of the agency, exclusive news agency Reuters, which cites sources close to the dossier. Another tile for the web giant led by Merissa Mayer, accused just a few weeks ago that you kept in the dark about its customers to hacker attacks, through which they would have been stolen in 2014, private information to 500 million of its subscribers. In the meantime, Edward Snowden, the computer technician who, with his revelations about the surveillance put in place by the Usa led the way to the Datagate, he immediately invited on Twitter all the Yahoo customers to close their accounts: “Use Yahoo? Them scan secretly everything that you write far beyond what the law requires. Close your account today.”

Surveillance belt. According to a survey of Reuters, the past year, Yahoo has developed in secret a software that can search all the messages in incoming e-mail to its customers based on the specifications provided by the officials of the secret services of the United States. The revelation comes from two former employees of the california-based company and a third person aware of this mechanism. Yahoo has thus obeyed a directive to the federal putting hundreds of millions of accounts at the disposal of the security agencies. This would represent the first evidence of the acceptance by part of a large web company, a surveillance system, massive, total, on all incoming messages, including enclosures, and will not, therefore, a real-time search limited to a small number of specific accounts. It ignores for the moment the type of information in the viewfinder of the secret services of the americans, we only know that it was a matter of phrases to precise contained in the email.

Fight to the top of the group. According to two former employees, the decision of the managing director Marissa Mayer to obey the directive of the federal has greatly irritated some of the leaders and led to the farewell, in June of 2015, the Chief Information Security Officer, Alex Stamos, immediately after taken to the security department of Facebook. It was him’s cover of the spy program to the internal server of the company and made him destroy it thinking that it was the work of hackers. When he realized that instead it was a deliberate choice of the vertices, which had not been set apart, taken hat and greeted everyone. “Yahoo is a company of law and respects the laws of the United States,” said the company in Sunnyvale in a short official statement in response to the news published by Reuters, refusing to provide additional comments. Stamos, for its part, has refused to release statements, as was to be expected – they have made the vertices of the Nsa, the National Security Agency.

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