Announced a " Yahoo " on Wednesday that all communications to and from its own data centers are becoming encrypted , in a move to reduce the spy and the U.S. National Security Agency data users.
The company said in a statement , said that by the atheist and the thirtieth of March / March last , has become the movement of data between its own data centers fully encrypted .
The contractor , a former National Security Agency , " Edward Snowden ," has leaked in October / October last year and the documents to prove the involvement of the agency broke the main lines of communication that connects the two data centers , " Yahoo " and " Google " secretly .
Although the precautions taken by the " Yahoo " comes after the spy scandal , but the encryption of user data between the main lines of communication that connect data centers the company comes in implementation of a promise to CEO 's " Yahoo " , " Marissa Mayer " itself to activate this feature by the end of March / last March .
She said, " Yahoo " Wednesday it has also strengthened e-mail service and other services with more encryption , where it became e-mails exchanged between the servers and the service providers who support the standard " GSM ITP LSI " SMTPLS fully encrypted .
The company has done a feature to encrypt e-mail service " Yahoo Mail " last January .
She added, " Yahoo " to its home page and all search queries on the page and most other services may become encrypted after activating the matching protocol in accordance with the Safe Browsing "HP T- TBS " HTTPS by default.
But for users who want to be encrypts surfing for some services, such as the news service , " Yahoo News" , and sports service " Yahoo Sports " , and money service " Yahoo Finance " , according to activate matching protocol " HTTP feed " manually.
Years ago , you receive a " Yahoo " several invitations to encrypt users' data , so I started surfing providing e-mail service in accordance with the protocol " HTTP feed " in 2012 , is optional.
The many other companies , such as " Facebook " and " Google " has already begun to promote its potential security , especially after reports of U.S. spy on users around the world .
She said, " Yahoo " yesterday it plans to launch a new version of applications and encrypted Instant Messaging " Yahoo Messenger " in the coming months , and it is working on bringing more improved forms of encryption techniques .
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