Purple Palace also to loose script autobots to verify bug bounties
By Darren Pauli, 8 Aug 2014 Yahoo will fire up end-to-end (E2E) encryption for its email users by 2015, chief security officer Alex Stamos announced at Black Hat overnight.The Purple Palace has also created a PGP plugin forked from Google's new offering that will be native in mobile apps allowing Gmail and Yahoo mail to easily exchange encrypted email.
The initiative has been a priority for Stamos @alexstamos during his six-month tenure at the company. He has created a new privacy engineering team poaching the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Yan Zhu who previously worked on that organisation's popular HTTPS Everywhere to develop E2E for Yahoo! Mail.
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