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Omaha Steve

(99,711 posts) Thu Apr 3, 2014, 03:15 AM Apr 2014

Yahoo adds more security to thwart surveillance

Source: AP-Excite

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo has added more layers of security in its effort to shield people's online lives from government spying and other snooping.

The measures announced Wednesday include the completion of a system that encrypts all information being transmitted from one Yahoo data center to another. The technology is designed to make the emails and other digital information flowing through data centers indecipherable to outsiders.

Search requests made from Yahoo's home page are also now automatically encrypted, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., company is promising to make it more difficult for unauthorized intruders to hack into other services, including video chats, within the next few months. Yahoo strengthened the security of its email in January.

"Whether or not our users understand it, I feel it's our responsibility to keep them safe," Alex Stamos, Yahoo's recently hired chief information of security, told a small group of reporters.

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Yahoo adds more security to thwart surveillance (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2014 OP

Good Sherman A1 Apr 2014 #1

I switched to yahoo search several months ago pipoman Apr 2014 #2

They are still involved with NSA PRISM cprise Apr 2014 #4

Yeah, right. When that other email service defied the NSA, closeupready Apr 2014 #3

Maybe they should invest time figuring out how to stop yahoo email from being hacked..... groundloop Apr 2014 #5

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. Good

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 05:02 AM

Apr 2014

Not sure it will be of any help, but a step in the right direction.

pipoman

(16,038 posts)

2. I switched to yahoo search several months ago

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 07:14 AM

Apr 2014

If you like this I suggest making yahoo your default search engine. ..

cprise

(8,445 posts)

4. They are still involved with NSA PRISM

Reply to pipoman (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:35 AM

Apr 2014

This is mainly a PR stunt, though I'm sure it will offer protection to Yahoo executives and others who work for them.

closeupready

(29,503 posts)

3. Yeah, right. When that other email service defied the NSA,

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:04 AM

Apr 2014

they closed down rather than expose their users to unavoidable surveillance.

Yahoo and gmail, OTOH, acquiesced.

Not buying this 'extra layer of security' bullshit for one minute.

groundloop

(11,522 posts)

5. Maybe they should invest time figuring out how to stop yahoo email from being hacked.....

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2014, 08:48 AM

Apr 2014

I quit using yahoo email after the second time my account was hacked by spammers. So far it's only been yahoo that I've had that issue with, so no, I'm not really buying this claim by them.

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