Report: Yahoo! snooped on people's e-mail for NSA / FBI

I think in protest that The NIAFL should just all pick subversive team names.
Putin Hots?

 

The Snowdens.

 

If we leave Yahoo! all the NIAFL message board posts there from Day One will be lost forever.

Everything is there. Everything.

You can scroll through the years of posts. Wonder what the Feds thought reading some of that stuff.

For my team name I call dibs on Dirty Commies.

 

Anyone who think Yahoo itself isn't using the feds as an excuse to do its own data mining of its customers' personal messages is IMO living in a dream world.

 

Anyone who thinks that Google and Facebook have not done the same thing are fooling themselves

 

I am not on social media for the very same reason. At the last job I had before I thank God retired, I dealt with a lot of advertising trade journals. They'd put you off social media for life.

 

It's twice as good as the 2nd amendment

 

Al Davis Qaeda

 

You all needed a news article to realize this has been going on?

Ostriches.

 

Now we know how Woj gets all those scopes

 

No, really, people are surprised at this? Before the Internet, all the telephone companies aided the NSA. Any new form of communication is going to be monitored.

The reasons why are simple:

Number One: the mentality, ever since 7 DEC 1941, that another Pearl Harbor must be prevented at all costs, and it takes a daily, hourly, minute, and second-by-second vigilance to do so.

Number Two: Pearl Harbor Number Two, 9/11. All efforts needed to be redoubled, hell, multiplied a million-fold.

I don't like some of this either, but would you rather someone waltz in with a suitcase nuke and wipe you off the map?

I firmly believe I will live to see a nuke detonated on American soil in my lifetime.

 

That's actually one I don't worry about. Every country that has nukes, even wacko North Korea, keeps them under very firm state control. If terrorists didn't get their hands on any right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I think they missed their one and only shot.