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AS IT IS 2016-10-06 Report Says Yahoo Scanned² Emails

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It has not been a good month for the American Internet company Yahoo.

In late September, Yahoo announced that everyone who uses its email service should change his or her password. The company said up to 500 million email accounts had been hacked⁴.

This week, the news agency Reuters reported that the company built an app that could scan¹ emails. It said Yahoo gave the app to a United States intelligence agency.

People are reacting to the latest news on Facebook and Twitter.

One Facebook user said: “If you were using Yahoo for anything, just stop. Now!”

Three former Yahoo employees told Reuters that the company had obeyed a demand from the U.S. government. They said it agreed to look at messages sent to hundreds of millions of email accounts.

Security experts say it is the first known time a U.S. Internet company agreed to view incoming messages instead of stored messages.

The sources said they do not know exactly what intelligence agents were searching for.

Other Internet companies including Apple, Google, Twitter and Facebook said they never received a similar request. They also said they would not agree to such a demand.

On Wednesday, Yahoo called the Reuters story “misleading.”

In a statement provided to journalists, the company said “the mail scanning⁵ described in the article does not exist on our systems.”

But many social media users continue to criticize Yahoo for its reported action.

That includes Edward Snowden, who wrote “They secretly scanned everything you ever wrote, far beyond what law requires. Close your account today.”

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Words in This Story

password – n. a secret series of numbers or letters that allows you to use a computer system

hack³ – v. to secretly get access to the files on a computer or network in order to get information, cause damage, etc.

scan – v. to look at (something) carefully usually in order to find someone or something

email account – n. the online space used to store and receive electronic messages

1 scan   

n.审视，浏览，扫描，押韵，细查；vt.细看，浏览，扫描，详细调查，信件扫描（指BBS处理直递邮件或会议邮件时，对所有或特定信区做检查的动作）

参考例句：

• The first scan was bad, so I had to do it again.第一次扫描不好，所以我得重做。
• A scan determines the position of the baby in the womb.扫描可以确定胎儿在子宮中的位置。

2 scanned   

经（擦伤仪）仔细检查的

参考例句：

• He scanned the horizon for any sign of land. 他仔细眺望地平线，找寻陆地的踪影。
• She scanned his face to see if he was telling the truth. 她审视着他的脸，看他讲的是否是真话。

3 hack   

n.劈，砍，出租马车；v.劈，砍，干咳

参考例句：

• He made a hack at the log.他朝圆木上砍了一下。
• Early settlers had to hack out a clearing in the forest where they could grow crops.早期移民不得不在森林里劈出空地种庄稼。

4 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

5 scanning   

v.扫描

参考例句：

• He turns the bicycle about scanning the hand brakes. 他把一辆自行车转过来转过去，仔细研究那手刹车。 来自辞典例句
• Scanning was first used in the transmission of pictures by telegraph. 最先应用扫描法是用电报传播图像。 来自辞典例句