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Re:A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X by linkregister on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:45PM (#13170181)
The DEA program is pretty shocking and a great example, thanks for sharing!

The second one sounds more like an interdiction program, where vulnerabilities are inserted into the devices (this is a thing that was in the Snowden documents). The document gives no details. The highlights on the side are from an NYT journalist, not source material.

I disagree that the last example is an example of that. It's still unclear what the scanning was doing.

Re:A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X by Spooky23 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @06:00PM (#13172074)
The Yahoo thing is a huge deal. Email providers do interception all of the time and have strong procedural controls.

The idea that people could bypass those processes and controls is a tremendous liability that no board would ever approve.