Ex-Yahoo Employee : Government Spy Program Could Have Given a Hacker Access to All Email
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/10/07/ex-yahoo-employee-government-spy-program-could-have-given-a-hacker-acc
Contrary to a denial by Yahoo and a report by the New York Times, the company’s scanning program, revealed earlier this week by Reuters, provided the government with a custom-built back door into the company’s mail service — and it was so sloppily installed that it posed a privacy hazard for hundreds of millions of users, according to a former Yahoo employee with knowledge of the company’s security practices. Despite this week’s differing media accounts, this much isn’t disputed : In 2015, (...)
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