The court-ordered search Yahoo conducted, on the other hand, was done by a module attached to the Linux kernel - in other words, it was deeply buried near the core of the email server operating system, far below where mail sorting was handled, according to three former Yahoo employees.

They said that made it hard to detect and also made it hard to figure out what the program was doing.

The backdoor was installed in such a way that it was intercepting and querying all Yahoo Mail users’ emails, not just emails of investigation targets.

Les affaires autour de Yahoo ont eu raison de votre patience et de votre tolérance ? Si vous ne voulez plus avoir de compte sur le portail web, voici comment faire.

Yahoo a accepté sans combattre d'installer un logiciel sur ses serveurs, qui regarde le contenu des e-mails qui arrivent et transmet aux services de renseignement américains ceux qui peuvent les intéresser. Il est plus que temps de fermer son compte Yahoo.

(This October 5 story has been corrected to show court order did not come under Section 702 of FISA. Headline and para 1 have also been corrected to remove

Reuters a révélé que Yahoo aurait accepté la mise en place d'un système de surveillance des emails entrants des boîtes mail de ses clients pour le compte des services...

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