Source: email scanner installed after government order was not a modified spam filter; Yahoo's security team thought it was a rootkit when they discovered it
How Yahoo risked user security … Regina Festin / Tech Times : Google, Microsoft, Apple And Facebook Deny Spying On Emails And Other Messages Neema Singh Guliani / American Civil Liberties Union : The Six Key Questions for the Obama Administration and Companies About Yahoo's Cooperation With the NSA Tweets: Matt Blaze / @mattblaze : Yahoo story gets even weirder. (Kernel module?!) http://www.reuters.com/... The Intercept / @theintercept : “If someone like an outside hacker got control of it, they could have basically read everyone's Yahoo mail.” http://theintercept.com/... Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : Ex-Yahoo employee says mail scan backdoor so sloppily installed it posed privacy risk for 100s of millions of users: http://theintercept.com/... Lorenzo Franceschi-B / @lorenzofb : Yahoo's spy tool for the government was a “buggy” and “poorly designed” malware, akin to a “rootkit.” http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... @derektmead : Yahoo's email scanner was actually rootkit that senior management hid from security team http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... Dino A. Dai Zovi / @dinodaizovi : Not many companies would have detected something like this, the Yahoo InfoSec team wasn't fooling around. http://twitter.com/... Trevor Timm / @trevortimm : Two sources tell @motherboard the NYT description of how Yahoo spied on all its users' email is wrong http://twitter.com/...