雅虎被指爲情報機構掃描用戶數以百萬計的郵件
Yahoo Inc. last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information sought by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
據知情者稱，雅虎公司去年祕密定製軟件程序，對所有用戶的接收郵件進行搜索，幫助美國情報官員尋找特定信息。
The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.
兩名前雅虎僱員和熟悉這一事件的另外一個人說，雅虎按照一份美國政府的機密指令，應美國國家安全局或聯邦調查局的要求，對數千萬用戶的電郵進行掃描。
Some surveillance experts said this is the first known case of a U.S. internet company agreeing to a spy agency's demand by searching all arriving messages, as opposed to examining stored messages or scanning a small number of accounts in real time.
一些監督專家說，這是第一次出現美國網絡公司接受情報機構的要求，對所有接收郵件進行搜索，而不是僅僅檢查儲存信息或即時掃描少量賬號。
It is not known what information intelligence officials were looking for, only that they wanted Yahoo to search for a set of characters. That could mean a phrase in an email or an attachment, said the sources, who did not want to be identified.
目前還不清楚，情報官員尋找的是些什麼信息，只知道他們要求雅虎搜索特定字樣。不願透露姓名的知情者說，搜索內容可能是郵件或附件中的某個詞組。
