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Well, technically he's right because the NSA isn't rifling through your emails, Yahoo is.
by 1024core 10y ago
Well, technically he's right because the NSA isn't rifling through your emails, Yahoo is.
- adventured 10y agoIt's pretty obvious you're wrong in that assessment: "The company complied with a classified U.S. government demand, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said three former employees and a fourth person apprised of the events." Your theory is that Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of accounts for the NSA, but the NSA isn't doing / hasn't done anything with those billions of emails. Your premise requires that the NSA come into possession of a truly massive load of data and then never touches it at all. That's absurd.
- 1024core 10y agoIt was just a flippant remark, but think about it: the story claims that Yahoo greps through emails at NSA's direction. So the NSA isn't grepping through the emails; Yahoo is. Sure, Yahoo then maybe turns around and gives all the results to NSA, which then proceeds to do whatever it wants with it.