UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users

Here we go, just the facts:

• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone
• Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images

And MORE!

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency databases, regardless of whether individual users were an intelligence target or not.

In one six-month period in 2008 alone, the agency collected webcam imagery – including substantial quantities of sexually explicit communications – from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts globally.

So… what did the UK government catch you doing??!

Time to secure your tin foil hats and adjust your tape overtop of your webcam.. things just got real.

UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users

In defense of porn: Tumblr explains its position on those fake rumors that Yahoo! is going to block NSFW Tumblr sites

(And we know you’ve seen them)

In defense of porn: Tumblr explains its position on those fake rumors that Yahoo! is going to block NSFW Tumblr sites

If you want to see the Internet(s) in its infancy, here you go

Look no further than Geocities.. This website captures some of the classics..

I myself had a few Geoshitties sites.. 

It was the original Myspace.. the original blogger..the original Facebook.. it predated Tumblr. The divorced dads and Jeep lovers from the 1990s paved the way for the personal blogs and opinionated sites of today.

God bless Geocities, and the pavers of the internet superhighway.

But Yahoo! shut down Geocities.
And now Yahoo! owns Tumblr…

Hmmm….

Today's main event: The Rumblr on Tumblr

There’s a rumblr on Tumblr..the new billion dollar man is coming to us from the tech world. Yahoo! is shelling out over $1 bil for the blogging service Tumblr.

Some users are concerned.. After all, it seems anything corporate Yahoo! gets its hands on fails or gets forgotten..

Also interesting, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr who dropped out of high school and made the blog service in his mom’s New York City apartment, said he wouldn’t sell as recent as a month ago. But money talked. Apparently talked very loud..

Get out while the gettin’s good, perhaps?

Either way, Karp is about to become the tycoon of the age.

The first of only a few since last century. Oh, and by the way, it was last century that Yahoo! bought another blogging service: Geocities. That failed too. And about two years ago, Yahoo! completely deleted all Geocities sites from its archives and database… leaving users to frantically try to save years of infancy of the internet.

So if Tumblr users think Yahoo! will care about providing a platform for independent thought to flourish and creative activity to occur, doubt that one..Big time.

The billion dollar man,David Karp

But will this ensure Tumblr is the Geocities of the 21st century?

Hey Yahoo, you want to buy Tumblr? Well THIS comes with it!

Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling

Anyone else a little uneasy about this? It’s like your parents planning to give you up for adoption.

In Obama style, maybe David Karp will announce that he found out about this in the newspapers when we did.

Tumblr In Talks With Yahoo; Facebook And Microsoft Also Said To Be Circling

So what did you do (or are you doing) as a teenager? I bet you didn't earn $30 mil, unless your name is Nick D'Alosio and you got a big bundle of cash from Yahoo!

So what did you do (or are you doing) as a teenager? I bet you didn't earn $30 mil, unless your name is Nick D'Alosio and you got a big bundle of cash from Yahoo!