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Report: Secret software on Yahoo email gave government more control

October 10, 2016

Via: The Hill
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Software that Yahoo installed at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI may have been more malicious than originally reported, Motherboard reports.

A New York Times story asserted that Yahoo developed software to search all emails for signatures that linked them to ongoing investigations. Sources tell Motherboard that the software was really a “rootkit” that was “buggy” and “poorly designed.”

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