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Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by tedunangst on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:28PM (#12640110)
Add it to the spam filter? The security team probably reviews the spam filter code, but perhaps not the particular weights and measures it uses on a daily basis. So you set up a parallel filter for "arabic spam" that generally looks like regular filter, just tuned a little differently.
Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by wolf550e on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @11:55PM (#12641454)
The feds had an API that allowed them to download the mail caught in the "Arabic spam filter". How do you hide that?
Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence by tedunangst on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:23AM (#12641543)
Perhaps the ssh connection running 'tail -f spamlog' is what tipped off the security team.