Is Yahoo the Preferred E-Mail of Terrorists?

Some weird news is coming out about Yahoo! secretly providing the FBI and NSA with information about users who utilize certain phrases in their emails. This would make a lot of sense from a security standpoint but obviously destroys everyone’s privacy as innocent civilians become targets of snooping. This is the case because you need to scan all emails to find the ones which match your criteria.

The news is weird because it doesn’t make sense to just have one email provider scan their communications – naturally Microsoft and Google as well as others would have to do the same. But these two companies denied doing the same thing, leaving us perplexed about whether Yahoo! just doesn’t worry as much about consumer privacy – or perhaps they thought they were working for the greater good.

Then again, any company which is involved in the largest hack in history (for now) has to have their security procedures at least questioned.

It makes one wonder if Yahoo is somehow the single provider to the terrorist community. Obviously this wouldn’t make much sense so there is likely more to this story which will come out over time.

The one thing is for sure – the U.S. government is the absolute worst enemy the tech industry could ever have as we are in an age of cloud and who in the world wants the NSA having access to all their online data? Even if they are innocent. This is one time the popularity of movies starring Jason Bourne is going to hurt U.S. economic interests as the idea of spies downloading your .Doc and .XLS files could be quite scary.

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