SiteProNews – by Jennifer Cowan
Yahoo has turned off its e-mail forwarding feature, making it much more difficult for its users to switch e-mail providers.
With automatic forwarding turned off, e-mails coming into Yahoo cannot be forwarded to a new e-mail address. The move will not impact those who previously had forwarding in place, it affects only those trying to take advantage of the feature now.
The timing is awfully convenient. It effectively prevents people from bailing on the company after the recent hacking revelations and rumors of government co-operation.
Yahoo posted the following message on its help site:
“Automatic forwarding sends a copy of incoming messages from one account to another. This feature is currently under development. While we work to improve it, we’ve temporarily disabled the ability to turn on Mail Forwarding for new forwarding addresses. If you’ve already enabled Mail Forwarding in the past, your e-mail will continue to forward to the address you previously configured.”
The company last month admitted more than 500 million of its users’ accounts were affected in one of the largest cyber-security breaches in history. The breach occurred back in 2014 and Yahoo was completely unaware of the fact until this year.
Then, a Reuters article last week indicated Yahoo, after receiving a top-secret U.S. government order, had built a software program to scan all incoming e-mails for information that might be of interest to U.S. intelligence agencies. Yahoo has denied the allegations, saying it discloses data to the government only when forced to do so by court order.
http://www.sitepronews.com/2016/10/11/yahoo-disables-e-mail-forwarding/
All email providers are spies now. It doesn’t matter what email provider you have. They all work for (or cooperate with) the NSA and/or CIA and anything you send gets saved onto their server for at least 30 days, if not an indefinite period of time if they deem the message as suspicious. Nothing is private. At this point snail mail is safer than e-mail, even though snail mail is still far from being safe.
“The timing is awfully convenient. It effectively prevents people from bailing on the company after the recent hacking revelations and rumors of government co-operation.”
Damage control.
Freakin’ SCUMBAGS!!!