Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence

Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by tptacek on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @03:37PM (#12638654)

I don't know any more about this than you do; I'm learning about it from the same Reuters story. But according to the story, the decision to implant the backdoor wasn't discovered by Yahoo security; rather, the backdoor itself was discovered, weeks after it was deployed.

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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by Phlarp on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:15PM (#12639044)

So is the speculation that Stamos' departure was related to this? The timing would seem suspicious otherwise.

If so, one wonders if he would take a similar principled stance a second time at Facebook. Much harder to jump ship for greener pastures while already riding the biggest rocketship in town.

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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by tptacek on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @05:27PM (#12639642)

I do not believe Stamos would remain at Facebook after something like this.

But we're not much more than acquaintances (we both worked at NCC, and were prior to that former business rivals or whatever you call two people with similar roles at competing firms). I like him.

I just want to be clear that I'm not speculating about Stamos's motives.

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