Yahoo Search Started Automatic Encryption Plugging All Security Holes

As promised by Marissa Mayer CEO of Yahoo, The company today has started to plug in all the security holes in its search engine and from today onward all the searches done on Yahoo home page will use automatic encryption which will automatically route all searches through a secure server. This all rerouting will be done at the back end and users will be using the search engine normally. According to the CEO, " There is nothing more important to us than protecting our users data". This automatic encryption will only be available to US site for now, other UK and Japan version will soon be starting the rerouting process. So US users feel free to search on Yahoo as there will no monitoring done by NSA on you now. Below is official press release of the company posted today on Yahoo.

Press Release 

As you know, there have been a number of reports over the last six months about the U.S. government secretly accessing user data without the knowledge of tech companies, including Yahoo. I want to reiterate what we have said in the past: Yahoo has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever.

There is nothing more important to us than protecting our users’ privacy. To that end, we recently announced that we will make Yahoo Mail even more secure by introducing https (SSL - Secure Sockets Layer) encryption with a 2048-bit key across our network by January 8, 2014.

Today we are announcing that we will extend that effort across all Yahoo products. More specifically this means we will:

• Encrypt all information that moves between our data centers by the end of Q1 2014;
• Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014;
• Work closely with our international Mail partners to ensure that Yahoo co-branded Mail accounts are https-enabled.

As we have said before, we will continue to evaluate how we can protect our users’ privacy and their data. We appreciate, and certainly do not take for granted, the trust our users place in us.