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From: siljaline on 4 Dec 2009 23:50
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Yahoo isn't happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web.

Shortly after Threat Level reported this week that Yahoo had blocked the FOIA release of its law enforcement and intelligence price list, someone provided a copy of the company's spying guide to the whistleblower site Cryptome.

The 17-page guide describes Yahoo's data retention policies and the surveillance capabilities it can provide law enforcement, with a pricing list for these services. Cryptome also published lawful data-interception guides for Cox Communications, SBC, Cingular, Nextel, GTE and other telecoms and service providers.

But of all those companies, it appears to be Yahoo's lawyers alone who have issued a DMCA takedown notice to Cryptome demanding the document be removed. Yahoo claims that publication of the document is a copyright violation, and gave Cryptome owner John Young a Thursday deadline for removing the document. So far, Young has refused.
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Article: <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/yahoo-spy-prices>

DMCA explained here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA>

Silj

--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_


From: Wile E. Coyote on 5 Dec 2009 07:02
ASCII wrote:

> Whatever you send on someone else's wire
> is only as private as they want it to be.

Not in Canada, we have privacy laws that applies to anyones wire.
If you don't believe me then look up Canadian Gov. telling Facebook to
back off breaking privacy laws. You think your telco company has the
legal right to spy on you because you use their "wire"?
From: Andy Walker on 5 Dec 2009 10:10
Wile E. Coyote wrote:

>ASCII wrote:
>
>> Whatever you send on someone else's wire
>> is only as private as they want it to be.
>
>Not in Canada, we have privacy laws that applies to anyones wire.
>If you don't believe me then look up Canadian Gov. telling Facebook to
>back off breaking privacy laws. You think your telco company has the
>legal right to spy on you because you use their "wire"?

LMAO! Do you really believe that a law is going to stop people from
using information you pass through their servers? That would be
extremely naive of you.
From: siljaline on 5 Dec 2009 10:31
Andy Walker wrote:
> Almost all free services make money on your information.

That's fairly definitive.

Silj

--
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

From: Dustin Cook on 5 Dec 2009 17:08
"Wile E. Coyote" <coyote(a)ACME.invalid> wrote in news:IZrSm.16808$y%5.11258
@newsfe03.iad:

> ASCII wrote:
>
>> Whatever you send on someone else's wire
>> is only as private as they want it to be.
>
> Not in Canada, we have privacy laws that applies to anyones wire.
> If you don't believe me then look up Canadian Gov. telling Facebook to
> back off breaking privacy laws. You think your telco company has the
> legal right to spy on you because you use their "wire"?

The internet doesn't follow laws of any particular country or nation. Once
your data leaves your PC, you have absolutely no guarantee which "wires" in
which country are going to be carrying that information. Basically, your
rights don't apply anywhere except in your country.


--
Dustin Cook [Malware Researcher]
MalwareBytes - http://www.malwarebytes.org
BugHunter - http://bughunter.it-mate.co.uk
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