Indeed, Yahoo! has bad reputation on both spyware/malware[1] and censorship[2].
Ironically, Yahoo! Assistant, the successor of 3721 Internet Assistant (also called 3721 helper) was identified as malware by 360Safe, which is a product of Qihoo 360.[3] In 2007, Eric Yang, the co-founder and CEO of Yahoo! faced questions from a Congressional committee with respect to the company role in the arrests of journalists in China.[4] Recentlly, It was exposed that Yahoo! secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information.[5] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!#Adware_and_spyware [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Yahoo!#Work_in_the_People.27s_Republic_of_China [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Assistant [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang#Chinese_government_collaboration_controversies [5] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 11:01:22 PM UTC+8, 谭晓生 wrote: > Are there any words saying “award to Qihoo to recognize their long time > support for censorship”? > It is an official thanks letter from The Ministry of Public Security of the > People’s Republic of China, the equivalent organization with FBI of U.S, it > thanks for my team and myself to join the information security work the 3rd > Sept military review affair! I can tell you that my team and myself joined > the information security work for G20 meeting just finished last month, I > might got a thanks letter soon, is there anything wrong to do that? > > If anybody care about this, please ask somebody to translate this letter for > you, I do not have time to waste here on somebody lied. > > For the malware accuses, Yahoo acquired 3721 in 2003, do you think Yahoo > acquired a malware company? Is there any anti-virus software killed 3721’s > software? > > Thanks， > Xiaosheng Tan > > > > 在 2016/10/13 下午5:26，“dev-security-policy 代表 > solar”<dev-security-policy-bounces+tanxiaosheng=360...@lists.mozilla.org 代表 > sofl...@gmail.com> 写入: > > Some more information. > > 3721 helper, the most notorious malware in china was created by Hongyi > zhou and his company 3721 in 1998. According to Mr. Tan's bio, he was the > development director of 3721. So I believe he directly participated in and > led the development of the malware. > > There is another evidence of Qihoo cooperating with chinese government to > censor the internet. Last year, the Ministry of Public Security (the > stakeholder of GFW) give an award to Qihoo to recognize their long time > support for censorship especially during the event of the 70th anniversary of > the victory of World War II. The official paper of the award > (http://www.canyu.org/n102771c6.aspx) was listed on Qihoo website. But it was > soon removed before widely exposed in public. Moreover, the chinese name(谭晓生) > of Mr. Tan Xiaosheng was mentioned in the official paper. > > I do NOT trust the person who developed malware, and I also do NOT trust > the CA involved in censorship. > _______________________________________________ > dev-security-policy mailing list > dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
