Leaked File Reveals Yahoo's Spy Service

[exfileme]

A leaked file revealing Yahoo's spy policies is a topic in a tug-of-war battle.

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[truehighroller]

Please take it down LMAO. FAIL~!

 

[Shadow703793]

lol, and here I thought Yahoo was the Non Evil one :lol:
/sarcasm

 

[okibrian]

The last time I used Yahoo! was like 1997 I think.

 

[Guest]

Verizon ISP service = Yahoo as they are partners

So if your ISP is Verizon, then you are also under Yahoo. (Bleah)

 

[buwish]

I'm sure most major ISP's have something similar.

 

[gantlett]

I don't understand what the whole fuss is about. You think yahoo are the only ones with a legal department ready to turn in all your private data to legal authorities? Do you really think your cell provider isn't keeping a log of all your recent locations? Yes, even when you cheated on your wife that night. Do you really think your ISP isn't logging any porn website or other online activities you've been up to for the past 3 years? Think again.

 

[Grims]

It really doesn't look that bad to me, the information is only provided if they are subpoenaed for it...in which case any company would have to comply. Furthermore their data retention policies are rather lax...they won't even search for deleted mail of an account.

 

[leo2kp]

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, TBH. In fact, I was surprised by how little data was retained. I would be more fearful of what Google has associated with your IP address.

 

[asdf634]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Fair play, but when a company gets caught, the automatic reaction should be to stop using them. Maybe that way they will get the hint that it's not acceptable. The minute you shrug your shoulders and say "Fuck it, being spied on is just part of life" is the minute they start implanting GPS chips in to the brains of newborn babies.Where is the rage? Where is the army of civil liberties people banging down the doors at Yahoo? Where are the team of auditors demanding this information be deleted?[/citation]

Too true, we need to "fight the good fight" and "finish the fight" 😉

 

[doc70]

[citation][nom]Gantlett[/nom]I don't understand what the whole fuss is about. You think yahoo are the only ones with a legal department ready to turn in all your private data to legal authorities? Do you really think your cell provider isn't keeping a log of all your recent locations? Yes, even when you cheated on your wife that night. Do you really think your ISP isn't logging any porn website or other online activities you've been up to for the past 3 years? Think again.[/citation]

The fuss is - or should be - about our civil liberties being chewed on by this or that corporation/agency while people are shrugging their shoulders. Only a decade ago we had a lot more than we do right now. The founding fathers must be rolling in their graves faster than a power-drill...
But, to be in consensus, whateva!(sic)

 

[Regulas]

Bummer but if you use Windows you are running a OS that was designed alongside with the FEDS/NAS and they can access anything they want with ease.

 

[Regulas]

Correction, FEDS/NSA

 

[bk420]

Just great, more invasion of privacy...Go USA---becoming more like China.

 

[joseflavio]

This is NASTY, I really hope Yahoo go bankrupt! Clearly it is not honest, as common sense says you believe you have some privacy rights in your PERSONAL mail and messenger!

read this of the document:

* Archives of Web Messenger communications may be stored on Yahoo! servers if at least one party to the communication chose to archive communications.

* Any email available in the user’s mail account, including IP address of computer used to
send email.
Yahoo! is not able to search for or produce deleted emails.

I will never, NEVER EVER come close a Yahoo site again!

 

[quantum mask]

Actually according to the document, they can't produce documents that you delete yourself to law enforcement. So, really we have a responsibility to protect ourselves too. And it's not Yahoo it's the government that will make them do it. Yahoo in this document is just setting their terms and letting them know, "Hey, you're gonna have to pay us if you're gonna make us do it."

 

[counselmancl]

I am not ok with any of this. I have been cell phone and facebook/myspace free for the last three months and loving it. Also, I still have a life. Imagine that.

 

[bamslang]

http://cryptome.org/

If you look, many other companies (ATT, Verizon, Sprint, Cricket, Nextel, etc... list goes on and on) all have similar policies.

 

[cybrcatter]

The Dark Web will keep it in circulation

 

[gantlett]

[citation][nom]doc70[/nom]The fuss is - or should be - about our civil liberties being chewed on by this or that corporation/agency while people are shrugging their shoulders.[/citation]
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Fair play, but when a company gets caught, the automatic reaction should be to stop using them.[/citation]
You are both absolutely right, I was being sarcastic in my previous post...
This is indeed wrong, but unfortunately I don't think we have the power to change that, and I am %100 convinced EVERYONE else is doing it, not just Yahoo. This is not to say that makes it right, it just goes to show how little power we consumers have over the authorities and gigantic enterprises. We no longer live in a world of “the customer is always right”. It's now “Buy the shit I'm selling which I've decided is right for you, or fuck off. Next!”.